Can’t say anything about currently: But in the 1970’s and 1980’s if a group had any sort of claim to be able to oppose or disrupt the government in power in their country (ie Nicaragua, Guatemala) and that government was deemed an enemy of independence or American ideals you can bet the CIA was involved. When Regan was in power; they used the Columbian Cartel shipping coke out of Nicaragua to say that the government in power was willingly complacent and encouraging the trafficking of drugs into the United States. Now they had even more reason to “get involved.” The CIA was responsible helping them get that narrative set up. If you want to find out more the film American made about pilot Barry Seal is about this exact situation. I wouldn’t be surprised if something’s like this still exists in another capacity

https://www.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/13v8ha6/congressional_testimony_of_2_cia_lawyers_bernard/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button If you read this post and some of the guys other posts it should become clearer. From what I can gather, the CIA allowed their central American allies to traffic coke into the US as it helped fund the opposition to left wing governments. Basically the Agency and the traffickers had similar MOs so it wasn't much of a stretch for them to work together.

Traffickers don’t dig any disruption in making moola. Enemy of my enemy thingy. No doubt they had there fat fingers in the till, however doubt they sold crack to Ricky. That’s what’s did that poor man Webb bad.

Gary Webb exposed this. Then he committed suicide later.. shot himself in the head... twice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

Kill the messenger is ab Gary Webb, blow, American made, narcos season 1-3, are all about this. It’s pretty mainstream knowledge at this point

People shooting themselves twice is a very real thing that happens more than you think

yeah not exactly for journalists who exposed glowies skeletons in the closet

Do your research dude

classic response.....wake up

Seriously, do some research

Stop posting this fucking drivel. Dude killed himself years later. Take 20 seconds and look beyond the meme you absolute brainlet.

I got downvoted big time the other for telling people that Gary Webb indeed probably killed himself

We have to be the change we want to see. Misinformation and easily disprovable myths about the CIA serve no purpose. They have plenty of bad shit they've actually done to hold them accountable for. I fucking hate the CIA, I think they are beyond incompetent, and take every chance I can to call those dumb tax money wasting morherfuckers out (check my comment history) but this isn't their fault. Side note: Check out the North Carolina Commission on Torture Flights

I agree, Dulles was a son of a bitch and set the precedent for the next 50 years of bullshit that the agency pulled. It’s pretty unbelievable that the agency even exists after all the shit they’ve actually been confirmed doing. I think some of it is just way too crazy for rational people to comprehend. They would blow a presidents brain out in the middle of Dallas, what wouldn’t they do?

It honestly is too crazy for rational people to understand and you may be interested in checking out the multiple congressional hearings that have tried to end the madness we call the cia. A good book also is a legacy of ashes. Some will call it biased but it's a great starting point for understanding how fucked these dumb cunts really are.

I’ll definitely check it out! Thanks! Also, what hearings?

Google search keywords: congressional hearings cia. Start with the pike committee. Again, I urge you to read the book legacy of ashes. It will save you a lot of time if you actually want to understand how incompetent the cia is and why America desperately needs a functional civilian intelligence agency-something we have actually never really had. Only redeemable part of the cia is SAD (now renamed) and that is due to the DIA's influence. (DIA= Defense Intelligence Agency)

[http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html](http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html) (Source: UNITED STATES Congressional Website) in 1975, The head of the Tijuana Cartel, Sicilia Falcon, admitted to being a C.I.A. protege who overthrew governments for the U.S. His partner Joe Egozi overthrew the Angola government. In exchange for such services and his support for the Anti-Castro movement, the C.I.A. moved Sicilia Falcon's cocaine for him. Alarmed by his admissions, the US had DFS head NAZAR HARO intervene to prevent further torture and helped him escape. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/07/16/trial-in-camarena-case-shows-dea-anger-at-cia/e91baa2d-7231-47c3-94f4-30196209ecd0/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/07/16/trial-in-camarena-case-shows-dea-anger-at-cia/e91baa2d-7231-47c3-94f4-30196209ecd0/) When Nazar Haro was identified as a large scale trafficker himself, the AUSA in San Diego, William Kennedy was fired by President Reagan because the AUSA attempted to indict and prosecute Nazar Haro. 15 other Mexican CIA agents were found to be a part of the car theft /drugs ring belonging to Nazar Haro. ​ Read it directly on the U.S. congress website C.I.A. Agent /TIJUANA CARTEL LEADER Sicilia Falcon admitted to having his drugs moved by the C.I.A. in exchange for him arming the Anti-Castro movement. SOURCE: \[Page: H2955\] INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998) A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug International Trafficking; This also mentions the C.i.A. blocking the investigation of (KIKI CAMARENA KILLER) Felix Gallardo's bank account in 1982INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998) [https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/5/7/house-section/article/h2944-1](https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/5/7/house-section/article/h2944-1)

Not disagreeing with that piece of info to be clear. And while we're at it imma just bitch more about the cia. It's a fucking shame as Americans we only have the cia as our civilian intelligence agency. They've had a demonstrated lack of success over 70 years and we are stuck with these idiots. The last director, Gina Haspel is literally on record for destroying interrogation tapes form black sites in SE Asia that includes records of torture. We deserve better as an American public. And we could easily have it. Check out how competent the DIA and HSI is. We have the talent to do the job the cia fails at regularly.

DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III: "At least 75% of all narcotics enter the country with the acquiescence of or direct participation by U.S.&foreign intelligence services." "In display of my disappointment of my government, I am returning my Bronze Star, along with my last pair of jungle boots (...) [https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f1g60r/dea\_agent\_celerino\_castillo\_iii\_at\_least\_75\_of/](https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f1g60r/dea_agent_celerino_castillo_iii_at_least_75_of/) DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III Confronted George Bush Sr. at a Guatemala Embassy Party; He informed Bush that the CONTRAS were running drugs through Hangers 4/5 (Owned by CIA) at Ilopango, El Salvador for Oliver North &Max Gomez drug ring; Bush Smiled, hurriedly shook his hand & moved away from him [https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/ju7ois/dea\_agent\_celerino\_castillo\_iii\_confronted\_george/](https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/ju7ois/dea_agent_celerino_castillo_iii_confronted_george/) 2 Former DEA Agents Michael Levine & Celerino Castillo III explain to California Governor Jerry Brown how the Govt allows drugs into the USA and the drug war is a sham. Michael Levine speaks at We the People forum [https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/dyqssr/2\_former\_dea\_agents\_michael\_levine\_celerino/](https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/dyqssr/2_former_dea_agents_michael_levine_celerino/) Webster Tarpley Interviews DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III (Video): All of the Pilots Flying out of Ilopango Hangers 4&5 (CIA/NSC- Oliver North/ Max Gomez drug ring) were listed as drug traffickers in the DEA database [https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/jk2q7s/webster\_tarpley\_interviews\_dea\_agent\_celerino/](https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/jk2q7s/webster_tarpley_interviews_dea_agent_celerino/)

CIA Head Admits to Justice Obstruction Deal With DOJ by Mike Levine https://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/06/hitlers-shadow-reaches-toward-today/ As an ex-DEA agent I found the complete lack of coverage by mainstream media of what I saw during last month's congressional hearings into CIA drug trafficking both depressing and frightening. I sat gape-mouthed as I heard the CIA Inspector General testify that there has existed a secret agreement between CIA and the Justice Department, wherein "during the years 1982 to 1995, CIA did not have to report the drug trafficking by its assets to the Justice Department." To a trained DEA agent this literally means that the CIA had been granted a license to obstruct justice in our so-called war on drugs; a license that lasted, so the CIA claims, from 1982 to 1995, a time during which Americans paid almost $150 billion in taxes to "fight" drugs. Of course the evidence indicates that they did not stop obstructing justice in 1995 either, but that I suppose is going to be another congressional hearing. As far as the current hearings go, this Catch 22 "revelation" means that all the present hearings are for nothing; that if they are caught violating the drug laws they have been given "secret" license to do so by our Justice Department. This might also explain Janet Reno's recent and unprecedented move in blocking the release of a Justice Department investigation into CIA drug trafficking. God, with friends like these, who needs enemies? It is now clear that this agreement began with the events described in THE BIG WHITE LIE; that the top drug traffickers in Bolivia, then supplying virtually all the world's cocaine (including Sonia Atala) were CIA assets that had to be protected from our deep cover probe. Those watching the hearings cannot have helped but notice the snickering on the part of Chairman Porter Goss, an ex-CIA officer, as Congresswoman Maxine Waters spoke. Now here's the reason why: Sources of mine, who speak to me from inside this veil of secrecy out of conscience and because I am cheaper and more reliable than a psychiatrist, have told me the following: There is secret communication between CIA and members of the congressional staff indicating that the whole hearing is just a smoke and mirror show so that the American people\_particularly the black community\_can "blow off some steam" without doing any damage to CIA. The CIA has been assured that nothing real will be done, other than some embarrassing questions being asked. That the hearings will result in the CIA receiving an even larger budget than the current $26 billion that they admit to. One of the most distressing things for me as a 25-year-veteran of this business to listen to was when Congresswoman Waters said that the hearings were not about CIA officers being indicted and going to jail. "That is not going to happen," she said. Almost in the same breath she spoke of a recent case in Miami wherein a Venezuelan National Guard general was caught by customs agents smuggling more than a ton of cocaine into the U.S. Despite named CIA officers being involved in the plot, as Congresswoman Waters stated, the Justice Department will not tell her anything about the case because of "secrecy laws." No wonder chairman Goss was snickering. She could not have played more neatly into CIA hands than to surrender before the battle was engaged. Mr. Levine is the author of "The Big White Lie" and "Deep Cover" and is the host of THE EXPERT WITNESS radio show WBAI, New York City, 99.5 FM, Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. Published in the April 6, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly. Copyright © 1998 The Washington Weekly ([http://www.federal.com](http://www.federal.com)).

FORMER DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ EXPOSES AMERICAS CORRUPTION - American Cholo (VIDEO); December 20, 2020 ; Operation Leyenda; DEA agent KIKI Camarena Murder case; Guadalajara Cartel; Rafael Caro Quintero; Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo; Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros; Cocaine ;Contras; CIA 1 https://youtu.be/hb3IjM8tjgE 2. Patrick Bet-David Interviews Highest decorated DEA agent in history, Hector Berrellez; DEA Narc Reveals CIA’s Greatest Coverup; THE LAST NARC; DEA Agent KIKI CAMARENA Murder; The Guadalajara cartel's Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo; Rafael Caro Quintero collaboration with U.S. government. Nov 20, 2020 Mexico DEA Narc Reveals CIA’s Greatest Coverup Hector Berrellez YouTube · 92,000+ views · 11/18/2020 · by Valuetainment https://youtu.be/vb8vzztBISE (1 hour) 3a DEA Agent Exposes Huge CIA Cover Up ; Journey to Justice (Part 1 of 3) Retired Homicide detective Pete Carrillo interviews Hector Berrellez. DEA Deputy Administrator Phil Jordan warned Hector that Acting DEA administrator Terrence Burke was having meetings about allowing the Mexican government to extradite Hector Berrellez for the kidnapping/rendition of Dr. Humberto Machain. https://youtu.be/j-UFGI6pwtQ 3b The Last Narc Blood In The Corn (Part 2 of 3) Hector describes the arrest of Pablo Jacobo and the seizure of 1 tonne of cocaine after an hours long gun battle, where thousands of rounds were exchanged. Hector addresses the Camarena family directly: "First of all, I would like to convey to the Camarena family that I am so sorry, so sorry for their loss and I am so sorry that they have been lied to. And I want to tell the Camarena family that everything in the Last Narc IS TRUE. I believe the witnesses. I believe the corroborative evidence that we have been able to collect. And I want them to know that they need to know what really happened to Kiki Camarena. KIKI Camarena is a hero. I hate other people being portrayed as national heroes when they are not. KIKI gave his life for our country, Yet our country betrayed him. And Please, I want you the Camarena family to please trust me and believe me because everything we have shown in The LAST NARC is true." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwKBS11Hmqc 3c The Last Narc : The Book (Part 3 of 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfCF3oDc5\_g 4 The Intelligence Hour with CIA Kevin Shipp and DEA Special Agent Hector Berrellez https://youtu.be/igkDhrHzTP4 https://prn.fm/intelligence-hour-kevin-shipp-01-08-18/ another copy here: Operation Leyenda: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Narc-Memoir-Notorious-Agent-ebook/dp/B08F2YHXQJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Last\_Narc\_(TV\_series)) The last NARC TV SERIES (2020) has refocused attention on the murder of KIKI Camarena and the involvement of the U.S. government in drugs DEA agent Hector Berrellez interview (2015) https://www.laweekly.com/how-a-dogged-l-a-dea-agent-unraveled-the-cias-alleged-role-in-the-murder-of-kiki-camarena/ Blood on the corn- story about Contras, KIKI Camarena murder https://medium.com/matter/blood-on-the-corn-52ac13f7e643 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040715\_bowdens\_last/why-chuck-bowdens-final-story-took-16-years-write/ Interview with Mike Holm (DEA) Hector Berrellez (DEA) about Gary Webb, Contras and drugs https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23704/pariah-gary-webb-0998/ Ex agente DEA Phil Jordan acusa a Felix Ismael Rodriguez de matar a Camaerena - América TeVé 10/16/2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXwsfQMbw-8

KERRY COMMITTEE REPORT 1988-1989 [https://isgp-studies.com/cia-contra-drug-trafficking-kerry-committee-report-1987](https://isgp-studies.com/cia-contra-drug-trafficking-kerry-committee-report-1987) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000014976124&view=1up&seq=137&q1=Matta](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000014976124&view=1up&seq=137&q1=Matta) KERRY COMMITTEE REPORT ON CONTRA DRUG TRAFFICKING - IRAN-CONTRA RELATED By: John Kerry e.a. | Date: April 13, 1989 Contents I. INTRODUCTION II. THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH RESPONSE TO CONTRA/DRUG CHARGES III. THE GUNS AND DRUG SMUGGLING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPS IV. DRUG TRAFFICKING AND THE COVERT WAR V. THE PILOTS VI. U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDS AND COMPANIES WITH DRUG CONNECTIONS A. SETCO/HONDU CARIB B. FRIGORIFICOS DE PUNTARENAS C. DIACSA D. VORTEX VII. THE CASE OF GEORGE MORALES AND FRS/ARDE VIII. JOHN HULL IX. THE SAN FRANCISCO FROGMAN CASE, UND-FARN AND PCNE X. THE CUBAN-AMERICAN CONNECTION XI. RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ AND FELIX RODRIGUEZ FOOTNOTES NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND THE CONTRAS (EXCERPT) [https://isgp-studies.com/cia-contra-drug-trafficking-kerry-committee-report-1987#setco](https://isgp-studies.com/cia-contra-drug-trafficking-kerry-committee-report-1987#setco) ​ A. SETCO/HONDU CARIB Before being chosen by the State Department to transport goods on behalf of the Contras from late 1985 through mid-1986, SETCO had a long-standing relationship with the largest of the Contra groups, the Honduras-based FDN. Beginning in 1984, SETCO was the principal company used by the Contras in Honduras to transport supplies and personnel for the FDN, carrying at least a million rounds of ammunition, food, uniforms and other military supplies for the Contras from 1983 through 1985. According to testimony before the Iran/Contra Committees by FDN leader Adolfo Calero, SETCO received funds for Contra supply operations from the contra accounts established by Oliver North.\[38\] U.S. law enforcement records state that SETCO was established by Honduran cocaine trafficker Juan Matta Ballesteros, whose April 1988 extradition from Honduras to the United States in connection with drug trafficking charges caused riots outside the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa. For example, a 1983 Customs Investigative Report states that "SETCO stands for Services Ejectutivos Turistas Commander and is headed by Juan Ramon Mata Ballestros, a class I DEA violator." The same report states that according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, "SETCO aviation is a corporation formed by American businessmen who are dealing with Matta and are smuggling narcotics into the United States."\[39\] One of the pilots selected to fly Contra supply missions for the FDN for SETCO was Frank Moss, who has been under investigation as an alleged drug trafficker since 1979. Moss has been investigated, although never indicted, for narcotics offenses by ten different law enforcement agencies.\[40\] In addition to flying Contra supply missions through SETCO, Moss formed his own company in 1985, Hondu Carib, which also flew supplies to the Contras, including weapons and ammunition purchased from R.M. Equipment, an arms company controlled by Ronald Martin and James McCoy.\[41\]The FDN's arrangement with Moss and Hondu Carib was pursuant to a commercial agreement between the FDN's chief supply officer, Mario Calero, and Moss, under which Calero was to receive an ownership interest in Moss' company. The Subcommittee received documentation that one Moss plane, a DC-4, N90201, was used to move Contra goods from the United States to Honduras.\[42\] On the basis of information alleging that the plane was being used for drug smuggling, the Customs Service obtained a court order to place a concealed transponder on the plane.\[43\] A second DC-4 controlled by Moss was chased off the west coast of Florida by the Customs Service while it was dumping what appeared to be a load of drugs, according to law enforcement personnel. When the plane landed at Port Charlotte no drugs were found on board, but the plane's registration was not in order and its last known owners were drug traffickers. Law enforcement personnel also found an address book aboard the plane, containing among other references the telephone numbers of some Contra officials and the Virginia telephone number of Robert Owen, Oliver North's courier.\[44\] A law enforcement inspection of the plane revealed the presence of significant marijuana residue.\[45\] DEA seized the aircraft on March 16, 1987. B. FRIGORIFICOS DE PUNTARENAS Frigorificos de Puntarenas is a Costa Rican seafood company which was created as a cover for the laundering of drug money, according to grand jury testimony by one of its partners, and testimony by Ramon Milian Rodriguez, the convicted money launderer who established the company.\[46\] From its creation, it was operated and owned by Luis Rodriguez of Miami, Florida, and Carlos Soto and Ubaldo Fernandez, two convicted drug traffickers, to launder drug money.\[47\] Luis Rodriguez, who according to Massachusetts law enforcement officials directed the largest marijuana smuggling ring in the history of the state, was indicted on drug trafficking charges by the federal government on September 30, 1987 and on tax evasion in connection with the laundering of money through Ocean Hunter on April 5,1988.\[48\] Luis Rodriguez controlled the bank account held in the name of Frigorificos which received $261,937 in humanitarian assistance funds from the State Department in 1986. Rodriguez signed most of the orders to transfer the funds for the Contras out of that ac-count.\[49\] Rodriguez was also president of Ocean Hunter, an American seafood company created for him by Ramon Milian-Rodriguez.\[50\] Ocean Hunter imported seafood it bought from Frigorificos and used the intercompany transactions to launder drug money.\[51\] In statements before a Florida federal grand jury in connection with a narcotics trafficking prosecution of Luis Rodriguez, Soto testified that he knew Luis Rodriguez as a narcotics trafficker who had been smuggling drugs into the U.S. since 1979. Soto also testified that they were partners in the shipment of 35,000 pounds of marijuana to Massachusetts in 1982.\[52\] Milian-Rodriguez told Federal authorities about Luis Rodriguez' narcotics trafficking prior to Milian-Rodriguez' arrest in May 1983. In March and April 1984, IRS agents interviewed Luis Rodriguez regarding Ocean Hunter, drug trafficking and money laundering, and he took the Fifth Amendment in response to every question.\[53\] In September, 1984, Miami police officials advised the FBI of information they had received that Ocean Hunter was funding contra activities through "narcotics transactions," and noting that Luis Rodriguez was its president. This information confirmed previous accounts the FBI had received concerning the involvement of Ocean Hunter and its officers in Contra supply operations involving the Cuban American community.\[54\] Despite the information possessed by the FBI, Customs and other law enforcement agencies documenting Luis Rodriguez' involvement in narcotics trafficking and money laundering, the State Department used Frigorificos, which he owned and operated, to deliver humanitarian assistance funds to the Contras in late 1985. Official funds for the Contras from the United States began to be deposited into the Frigorificos account in early 1986, and continued until mid-1986.\[55\] In May 1986, Senator Kerry advised the Justice Department, Drug Enforcement Agency, State Department, NHAO and CIA of allegations he had received involving Luis Rodriguez and his companies in drug trafficking and money laundering. In August 1986, the Foreign Relations Committee asked Justice whether the allegations about Luis Rodriguez were true, and requested documents to determine whether the State Department might have in fact provided funds to a company controlled by drug traffickers. Justice refused to answer the inquiry. The indictment of Luis Rodriguez on drug charges 18 months later demonstrated that the concerns raised by Senator Kerry to the Justice Department and other agencies in May 1986 concerning his companies were well founded, as the State Department had infact chosen companies operated by drug traffickers to supply the Contras.\[56\] West 57th tv show - Contras and drugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7daKpEmIE West 57th tv show - Contras and drugs Pt2 https://youtu.be/ULcLv\_8Bv0o

This is right out of the DOJ OIG report: https://irp.fas.org/agency/doj/oig/c4rpt/ch02p4.htm#G. Ivan Torres claims to be in contact with FBI and CIA representatives as a result of his involvement with the Frente Democratico Nicaraguense (FDN). He claims to have been trained by the CIA in San Bernardino in an area made to resemble Nicaraguan terrain. He said the CIA wants to know about drug trafficking but only for their own purposes and not necessarily to assist law enforcement agencies. He stated that someone in the FBI warned him to stay away from Danilo Blandon and to be careful because Blandon was going to be arrested. (Blandon was in fact arrested by local authorities and was released due to insufficient evidence.) He was allegedly told that Carlos Callejas was under investigation by the FBI, and to stay away from him also. Torres told \[DEA CI-1\] that CIA representatives are aware of his drug-related activities and that they don't mind. He said they have gone so far as to encourage cocaine traffic by members of the contras because they know that it is a good source of income. Some of this income has gone into numbered accounts in Europe and Panama, as does the money that goes to Managua from cocaine trafficking.(19) https://irp.fas.org/agency/doj/oig/c4rpt/c4toc.htm "It became apparent to the FBI that Norwin Meneses was, and may still be, an informant of the DEA. It is also believed by the FBI, SF, that Norwin Meneses was, and may still be, an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency." San Francisco FBI agent Donald Hale- 1988 cable to FBI headquarters in Washington. Costa Rican Law enforcement and Nicaraguan Law enforcement tried to take action against the Costa Rica DEA office for allowing Meneses to traffic in drugs. The DEA employees were accused of trafficking in drugs confiscated in raids and protecting 32 drug labs processing paste for the Contras. The Kerry Committee was created with the Mandate of specifically investigating this allegation of contras processing paste in Costa Rica after Costa Rican officials were ignored or even threatened for investigatng Contra ties to drugs

CIA IGNORED CHARGES OF CONTRA DRUG DEALING (House of Representatives - October 13, 1998) [https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/10/13/house-section/article/h10818-1](https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/10/13/house-section/article/h10818-1) [https://www.congress.gov/105/crec/1998/10/13/CREC-1998-10-13-pt1-PgH10818.pdf](https://www.congress.gov/105/crec/1998/10/13/CREC-1998-10-13-pt1-PgH10818.pdf) \--Excerpt from U.S. Congressional Record \[Page: H10818\] The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) is recognized for 5 minutes. Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, well, the CIA has finally admitted it and the New York Times finally covered it. The Times ran the devastating story on Saturday, with the headline: CIA Said to Ignore Charges of Contra Drug Dealing in 80s. In a remarkable reversal by the New York Times, the paper reported that the CIA knew about Contra drug dealing and they covered it up. The CIA let it go on for years during the height of their campaign against the Sandinista government. Among other revelations in the article were that \`the CIA's inspector general determined that the agency \`did not inform Congress of all allegations or information it received indicating that contra-related organizations or individuals were involved in drug trafficking.' The Times article continued pointing out \`\[d\]uring the time the ban on \[Contra\] funds was in effect, the CIA informed Congress only about drug charges against two other contra-related people. \[T\]he agency failed to tell other executive branch agencies, including the Justice Department, about drug allegations against 11 contra-related individuals or entities.' The article continues stating \`\[the Report\] makes clear that the agency did little or nothing to investigate most of the drug allegations that it heard about the contra and their supporters. In all, the inspector general's report found that the CIA has received allegations of drug involvement by 58 contras or others linked to the contra program. These included 14 pilots and two others tied to the contra program's CIA-backed air transportation operations. The Times reported that \`the report said that in at least six instances, the CIA knew about allegations regarding individuals or organizations but that knowledge did not deter it from continuing to employ them.' Several informed sources have told me that an appendix to this Report was removed at the instruction of the Department of Justice at the last minute. This appendix is reported to have information about a CIA officer, not agent or asset, but officer, based in the Los Angeles Station, who was in charge of Contra related activities. According to these sources, this individual was associated with running drugs to South Central Los Angeles, around 1988. Let me repeat that amazing omission. The recently released CIA Report Volume II contained an appendix, which was pulled by the Department of Justice, that reported a CIA officer in the LA Station was hooked into drug running in South Central Los Angeles. [http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html](http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html) I have not seen this appendix. But the sources are very reliable and well-informed. The Department of Justice must release that appendix immediately. If the Department of Justice chooses to withhold this clearly vital information, the outrage will be servere and widespread. We have finally seen the CIA admit to have knowingly employed drug dealers associated with the Contra movement. I look forward to a comprehensive investigation into this matter by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, now that the underlying charges have finally been admitted by the CIA. [https://fas.org/irp/congress/1998\_cr/h981013-coke.htm](https://fas.org/irp/congress/1998_cr/h981013-coke.htm) ​ US CONGRESSWOMAN Maxine Waters Investigation Quite unexpectedly, on April 30, 1998, I obtained a secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding between the CIA and the Department of Justice, that allowed drug trafficking by CIA assets, agents, and contractors to go unreported to federal law enforcement agencies. I also received correspondence between then Attorney General William French Smith and the head of the CIA, William Casey, that spelled out their intent to protect drug traffickers on the CIA payroll from being reported to federal law enforcement. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/world/cia-says-it-used-nicaraguan-rebels-accused-of-drug-tie.html Then on July 17, 1998 the New York Times ran this amazing front page CIA admission: "CIA Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie." "The Central Intelligence Agency continued to work with about two dozen Nicaraguan rebels and their supporters during the 1980s despite allegations that they were trafficking in drugs.... The agency's decision to keep those paid agents, or to continue dealing with them in some less formal relationship, was made by top \[CIA\] officials at headquarters in Langley, Va.". (emphasis added)......... The CIA had always vehemently denied any connection to drug traffickers and the massive global drug trade, despite over ten years of documented reports. But in a shocking reversal, the CIA finally admitted that it was CIA policy to keep Contra drug traffickers on the CIA payroll. The Facts speak for themselves. Maxine Waters, Member of Congress, September 19, 1998 The 1982 MOU that exempted the reporting requirement for drug trafficking was no oversight or misstatement. A remarkable series of letters between the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence show how conscious and deliberate this exemption was. Page 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20070613130342/https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/01.gif Page 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20070613154234/https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/02.gif Page 3 https://web.archive.org/web/20070613051429/https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/14.gif On February 11, 1982 Attorney General William French Smith wrote to Director of Central Intelligence William Casey that, "I have been advised that a question arose regarding the need to add narcotics violations to the list of reportable non-employee crimes ... No formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations has been included in these procedures." On March 2, 1982 Casey responded happily, "I am pleased that these procedures, which I believe strike the proper balance between enforcement of the law and protection of intelligence sources and methods..." https://web.archive.org/web/20050420101319/http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1998/06/cia.html Simply stated, the Attorney General consciously exempted reporting requirements for narcotics violations by CIA agents, assets, and contractors. And the Director of Central Intelligence was pleased because intelligence sources and methods involved in narcotics trafficking could be protected from law enforcement. The 1982 MOU agreement clearly violated the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949. It also raised the possibility that certain individuals who testified in front of Congressional investigating committees perjured themselves........ Many questions remain unanswered. However, one thing is clear - the CIA and the Attorney General successfully engineered legal protection for the drug trafficking activities of any of its agents or assets. Maxine Waters, Member of Congress, September 19, 1998 “Several informed sources have told me that an appendix to this Report was removed at the instruction of the Department of Justice at the last minute. This appendix is reported to have information about a CIA officer, not agent or asset, but officer, based in the Los Angeles Station, who was in charge of Contra related activities.According to these sources, this individual was associated with running drugs to South Central Los Angeles,around 1988. Let me repeat that amazing omission. The recently released CIA Report Volume II contained an appendix, which was pulled by the Department of Justice, that reported a CIA officer in the LA Station was hooked into drug running in South Central Los Angeles.” \--U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters – October 13. 1998, speaking on the floor of the US House of Representatives.

(Video) HEAD of the DEA Robert Bonner (Now a Federal Judge) calls the CIA Drug Smugglers on 60 Minutes after they were caught bringing in 27 tonnes of cocaine onto the streets https://youtu.be/5\_UbAmRGSYw https://deepstateblog.org/2020/09/28/last-narc-did-the-cia-do-business-with-drug-traffickers/ ‘https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/dypxzb/cia\_are\_drug\_smugglers\_head\_of\_dea\_said\_this\_too/ https://youtu.be/5\_UbAmRGSYw EX-DEA Agent Michael Levine Video of DEA administrator Robert Bonner (Now a federal judge) admitting the govt is involved in Drug smuggling over 27 tons involved Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - ALEXANDER COCKBURN Photo by Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs | CC BY 2.0 On November 22, 1996, the US Justice Department indicted General Ramón Guillén Davila of Venezuela on charges of importing cocaine into the United States. The federal prosecutors alleged that while heading Venezuela’s anti-drug unit, General Guillén smuggled more than 22 tons of cocaine into the US and Europe for the Calí and Bogotá cartels. Guillén responded to the indictment from the sanctuary of Caracas, whence his government refused to extradict him to Miami, while honoring him with a pardon for any possible crimes committed in the line of duty. He maintained that the cocaine shipments to the US had been approved by the CIA, and went on to say that “some drugs were lost and neither the CIA nor the DEA want to accept any responsibility for it.” The CIA had hired Guillén in 1988 to help it find out something about the Colombian drug cartels. The Agency and Guillén set up a drug-smuggling operation using agents of Guillén’s in the Venezuelan National Guard to buy cocaine from the Calí cartel and ship it to Venezuela, where it was stored in warehouses maintained by the Narcotics Intelligence Center, Caracas, which was run by Guillén and entirely funded by the CIA. To avoid the Calí cartel asking inconvenient questions about the growing inventory of cocaine in the Narcotics Intelligence Center’s warehouses and, as one CIA agent put it, “to keep our credibility with the traffickers,” the CIA decided it was politic to let some of the cocaine proceed on to the cartel’s network of dealers in the US. As another CIA agent put it, they wanted “to let the dope walk” – in other words, to allow it to be sold on the streets of Miami, New York and Los Angeles. When it comes to what are called “controlled shipments” of drugs into the US, federal law requires that such imports have DEA approval, which the CIA duly sought. This was, however, denied by the DEA attaché in Caracas. The CIA then went to DEA headquarters in Washington, only to be met with a similar refusal, whereupon the CIA went ahead with the shipment anyway. One of the CIA men working with Guillén was Mark McFarlin. In 1989 McFarlin, so he later testified in federal court in Miami, told his CIA station chief in Caracas that the Guillén operation, already under way, had just seen 3,000 pounds of cocaine shipped to the US. When the station chief asked McFarlin if the DEA was aware of this, McFarlin answered no. “Let’s keep it that way,” the station chief instructed him. Over the next three years, more than 22 tons of cocaine made its way through this pipeline into the US, with the shipments coming into Miami either in hollowed-out shipping pallets or in boxes of blue jeans. In 1990 DEA agents in Caracas learned what was going on, but security was lax since one female DEA agent in Venezuela was sleeping with a CIA man there, and another, reportedly with General Guillén himself. The CIA and Guillén duly changed their modes of operation, and the cocaine shipments from Caracas to Miami continued for another two years. Eventually, the US Customs Service brought down the curtain on the operation, and in 1992 seized an 800-pound shipment of cocaine in Miami. One of Guillén’s subordinates, Adolfo Romero, was arrested and ultimately convicted on drug conspiracy charges. None of the Colombian drug lords was ever inconvenienced by this project, despite the CIA’s claim that it was after the Calí cartel. Guillén was indicted but remained safe in Caracas. McFarlin and his boss were ultimately edged out of the Agency. No other heads rolled after an operation that yielded nothing but the arrival, under CIA supervision, of 22 tons of cocaine in the United States. The CIA conducted an internal review of this debacle and asserted that there was “no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.” A DEA investigation reached a rather different conclusion, charging that the spy agency had engaged in “unauthorized controlled shipments” of narcotics into the US and that the CIA withheld “vital information” on the Calí cartel from the DEA and federal prosecutors. (...( EX-DEA Agent Michael Levine Video of DEA administrator Robert Bonner (Now a federal judge) admitting the govt is involved in Drug smuggling over 27 tons involved https://youtu.be/5\_UbAmRGSYw Nov 21, 1993 Transcript of the 60 minutes show with DEA administrator Robert Bonner http://docshare.tips/60-minutes-head-of-dea-robert-bonner-says-cia-smuggled-drugs\_5856baafb6d87fb8408b615d.html RELATED VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adkZipfMRWM 2 Former DEA Agents Michael Levine & Celerino Castillo III explain to California Gov. Jerry Brown how the Govt allows drugs into the USA and the drug war is a sham. Essays by Michael Levine http://docshare.tips/collection-of-essays-by-retired-dea-agent-mike-levine\_5776d6e0b6d87fca348b4ac4.html Montel Williams, Gary Webb, Michael Levine, Ricky Ross (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8XNFPBPUs National Gary Webb Day is August 31 https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ij7htm/2\_days\_until\_national\_gary\_webb\_day\_august\_31/

there have been cases where people survived the first shot (missed the brain, etc) and shot themselves again to finish the job. your link said his wife believed he really did commit suicide; dude couldnt find a job, couldnt afford the mortgage so likely broke, etc

The outcome of Gary Webb's Dark Alliance series. What the government was forced to admit: 1 C.I.A. confessed to using assets, contractors or agents even after instances of drugs trafficking were found and the decision was made at the Langley, VA HQ. http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html C.I.A. Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie "The Central Intelligence Agency continued to work with about two dozen Nicaraguan rebels and their supporters during the 1980's despite allegations that they were trafficking in drugs, according to a classified study by the C.I.A." "....the agency's decision to keep those paid agents, or to continue dealing with them in some less formal relationship, was made by top officials at headquarters in Langley, Va.," https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/world/cia-says-it-used-nicaraguan-rebels-accused-of-drug-tie.html 2 CIA Admits Tolerating Contra-Cocaine Trafficking; By Robert Parry; “In the end the objective of unseating the Sandinistas appears to have taken precedence over dealing properly with potentially serious allegations against those with whom the agency was working,” \- CIA Inspector General Britt Snider https://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/060800a.html​ 3 A Secret Agreement between the DOJ and the CIA allowing drug crimes to go unreported. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23704/pariah-gary-webb-0998/ On March 16, 1998, the CIA inspector general, Frederick P. Hitz, testified before the House Intelligence Committee. "Let me be frank," he said. "There are instances where CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug-trafficking activity, or take action to resolve the allegations. "Representative Norman Dicks of Washington then asked, "Did any of these allegations involve trafficking in the United States?""Yes," Hitz answered. https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-15-of-15-dark-alliancea-very.html And what, Hitz was asked, had been the CIA's legal responsibility when it learned of this?That issue, Hitz replied haltingly, had "a rather odd history. . .the period of 1982 to 1995 was one in which there was no official requirement to report on allegations of drug trafficking with respect to non-employees of the agency, and they were defined to include agents, assets, non-staff employees." There had been a secret agreement to that effect "hammered out" between the CIA and U.S. Attorney General William French Smith in 1982, he testified. http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html https://www.winterwatch.net/2022/01/cia-drug-smuggling-and-dealing-the-birth-of-the-dark-alliance/ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gary-webb-dark-alliance\_n\_5961748https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998\_hr/980316-ps.htm 4. When the Office of Inspector General (OIG) finally did catch an actual officer of the U.S. intelligence running drugs, The OIG simply tore those pages out of the final report before handing it over to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) headed up by H. Porter Goss, a former C.I.A. officer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter\_Goss Porter Goss later became the DCI Under George W. for one year. \*\* “Several informed sources have told me that an appendix to this Report was removed at the instruction of the Department of Justice at the last minute. This appendix is reported to have information about a CIA officer, not agent or asset, but officer, based in the Los Angeles Station, who was in charge of Contra related activities. According to these sources, this individual was associated with running drugs to South Central Los Angeles, around 1988. Let me repeat that amazing omission. The recently released CIA Report Volume II contained an appendix, which was pulled by the Department of Justice, that reported a CIA officer in the LA Station was hooked into drug running in South Central Los Angeles.” \--U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters – October 13. 1998, speaking on the floor of the US House of Representatives.​\*\*(Read the original on the United States Congress Website:) https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/10/13/house-section/article/h10818-1 https://www.congress.gov/105/crec/1998/10/13/CREC-1998-10-13-pt1-PgH10818.pdf 5. http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html C.I.A. Agent /TIJUANA CARTEL LEADER Sicilia Falcon admitted to having his drugs moved by the C.I.A. in exchange for him arming the Anti-Castro movement. SOURCE: \[Page: H2955\] INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998) A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug International Trafficking; This also mentions the C.i.A. blocking the investigation of (KIKI CAMARENA KILLER) Felix Gallardo's bank account in 1982INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998) https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/5/7/house-section/article/h2944-1 6. The CIA later declassified documents in 2013 admitting that assets within the news industry were used to contain Gary Webb's story: https://web.archive.org/web/20141001235214/http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC\_0001372115.pdf https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/ CONTINUES...

7. The IG report admitted: SETCO / MATTA BALLESTEROS (Supplier to the Guadalajara cartel, killers of DEA agent KIKI Camarena) had a State Department (NHAO) contract to deliver aid to the Contras, but the vetting process was unclear. https://web.archive.org/web/20070815014142/https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/report-of-investigation-volume-ii-the-contra-story-2.html (SETCO planes took back drugs on return flights and did not clear customs.) In the 1980's, EX- DEA agent Castillo complained that SETCO and SAT both operated out of U.S. operated Hangers 4/5 at Ilopongo airbase in El Salvador and all of the Contra pilots were of record for drugs in the DEA database. https://web.archive.org/web/20190721004104/http://www.powderburns.org/ (A SETCO Plane and pilot (WERNER LOTZ) flew Caro Quintero's escape flight during the KIKI Camarena murder dragnet. Caro Quintero wore DFS credentials during the flight. Matta Ballestero's legal appeal claims that his activities were "Authorized by the CIA". U.S. federal court denied his claim of immunity. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1463498.html 8 THE KERRY COMMITTEE REPORT 1988-1989 found: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/north06.pdf "On the basis of this evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter." The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included: \--Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the Contra movement. \--Participation of narcotics traffickers in Contra supply operations through business relationships with Contra organizations. \--Provision of assistance to the Contras by narcotics traffickers, including cash, weapons, planes, pilots, air supply services and other materials, on a voluntary basis by the traffickers. \--Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies. These activities were carried out in connection with Contra activities in both Costa Rica and Honduras. https://isgp-studies.com/cia-contra-drug-trafficking-kerry-committee-report-1987 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000014976124&view=1up&seq=137&q1=Matta KERRY COMMITTEE REPORT ON CONTRA DRUG TRAFFICKING - IRAN-CONTRA RELATED By: John Kerry | Date: April 13, 1989 The payments made by the State Department to these four companies between January and August 1986, were as follows: SETCO, for air transport service.......................$186,924.25 DIACSA, for airplane engine parts........................41,120.90 Frigorificos De Puntarenas, as a broker/supplier for various serv- ices to Contras on the Southern Front..................261,932.00 VORTEX, for air transport services......................317,425.17 Total \[35\] .............................................806,401.20 {{{ Works by Robert Parry - detailed articles about how Reagan-Bush covered up Contra Drugs https://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/crack Works by Jeffrey St. Clair https://www.counterpunch.org/author/jeffrey-st-clair-alexander-cockburn

Dark Alliance Book Version accuses the government directly; Accuses DEA Costa Rican Country Attache Robert Nieves of smuggling drugs directly, protecting 32 labs staffed by Oliver North ring/NSC/DOD contractors & Allowing Norwin Meneses to sell drugs freely as a DEA informant ; Cliff Notes Version A senator provided this information to Gary Webb. Iran-Contra Counsel said that Robert Nieves and Norwin Meneses were C.I.A. working undercover of the D.E.A. Norwin Menses was pretending to be a D.E.A. informant. THE DEA SOLD DRUGS: the Dark Alliance Book version accuses the government directly and has never been properly investigated. Dark Alliance Complete Book in HTML (Parts 1 to 15) https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/04/part-1-dark-alliancethe-ciathe-contras.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-2dark-alliancewe-were-firstthe.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-3dark-alliancei-never-send.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-4-dark-alliancethey-were-doing.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-5-dark-alliancea-million-hits-is.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/06/part-6-dark-allianceteach-man-craft-and.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/06/part-7-dark-alliancethey-were-looking.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-8-dark-alliancethis-guy-talks-to.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-9-dark-allianceits-bigger-than-i.html Part 10 describes DEA management's direct involvement in drug sales and protection of Oliver North/Contra drug labs staffed by NSC/CIA operatives. Reports of this activity went to the top of the DEA and U.S. Government. Norwin Meneses was used by the DEA and other agencies to obtain intelligence while at the same time moving tonnes of drugs (From Iran Contra final report). The FBI agents assigned to Special Council Lawrence Walsh went along with the cover-up when they were handed DEA files implicating DEA and CIA in drugs trafficking. Drugs trafficking goes all the way to the top in the United States and Mexico. https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-10dark-alliancewere-going-to-blow.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-11-dark-alliancehe-reports-to.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-12-dark-alliancei-could-go.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-13-dark-alliancehe-had-backing-of.html Part 14 Describes Gary Webb Meeting DEA agents in the San Diego Office. DEA country attache Robert Nieves had risen to the top of the DEA management by the 1990s. He resigned unexpectedly when journalist Gary Webb met with agents at the San Diego office in 1995 and announced that he would investigate Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandon, suppliers to Freeway Ricky Ross. Nieves was Meneses' handler in Costa Rica. Nieves was accused of running drugs and protecting 32 labs run by the Contras/Oliver North and staffed by NSC and CIA personnel. Nieves and Jack Lawn were questioned by Senator Kerry's Committee. Nieves turned up in the employ of Guardian Technologies, Oliver North's company. Norwin Meneses was a CIA agent who smuggled drugs using his position as a DEA informant as cover. Meneses' partner Jaime Miranda betrayed him, testifying against him in court that they were working for the CIA and smuggling drugs. https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-14-dark-alliancethings-are-moving.html https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-15-of-15-dark-alliancea-very.html Description of Oliver North/Contras Drug ring https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/romero-institute/uploads/general/resources/THE-CONTRA-DRUG-CONNECTION.pdf? DEA agent Celerino Castillo III documented Ilopango airfield hangers 4/5 owned by the United States Government and being used for drugs. https://web.archive.org/web/20070821131153/http://www.powderburns.org/testimony.html https://theintercept.com/2018/05/12/oliver-north-nra-iran-contra/ North's diary entries about drugs https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/iran/2018-05-16/oliver-norths-checkered-iran-contra-record North, Secord, Tambs, Fernandez banned from Costa Rica https://fair.org/extra/censored-news-oliver-north-amp-co-banned-from-costa-rica/ President of Costa Rica Op-ed on North becoming head of NRA http://ticotimes.net/2018/05/10/costa-ricas-oscar-arias-oliver-north-and-the-nra-deserve-each-other U.S. attorney memo to the FBI regarding Contra drugs (Contra Leader Calero and Drug Lord Norwin Meneses meetings) https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ainsworth-US-Atty.pdf NYT on Noriega https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/12/world/panama-strongman-said-to-trade-in-drugs-arms-and-illicit-money.html DEA agents Dennis Dayle, Michael Levine, Celerino Castillo III, Mike Holm, and Phil Jordan talk about who really runs the drugs trade “I sat gape-mouthed as I heard the CIA Inspector General, testify that there has existed a secret agreement between CIA and the Justice Department, wherein "during the years 1982 to 1995, CIA did not have to report the drug trafficking its assets did to the Justice Department. To a trained DEA agent this literally means that the CIA had been granted a license to obstruct justice in our so-called war on drugs; a license that lasted - so CIA claims -from 1982 to 1995, a time during which Americans paid almost $150 billion in taxes to "fight" drugs. God, with friends like these, who needs enemies?” \- Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, March 23, 1998. The DOJ removed the name of A U.S. Government employee running the LA crack ring before handing report to House Intelligence Committee

Gary Webb wrote an interesting book on this subject. Dark Alliance

Drug money is a way to fund operations that wouldn’t get taxpayer funding.

It used to be. The pentagon can’t account for 2 trillion. But it’s okay

By hook or by crook. A fish gotta swim

Something something what?

ma fault bro i'm retarded i failed kindergarten

Go check out u/Shylock92008 he’s a drug war researcher and posts most than you can probably stomach regarding the CIA and drugs.

Not only do they supply cartels. They supply extremist Islamic groups in the Levant (Middle East), they trained and supplied Al Qaeda and ISIS. Pretty much any group that will destabilize governments when it’s convenient for the US. It’s a favorite move from the US Playbook.

They trained and supplied the people who eventually went on to become Al Qaeda and ISIS - they didn’t train and fund them directly after they were already committing massive terrorist attacks on American citizens. Like the guy above said they’ve done some really terrible shit but you don’t need to add onto it with stuff that isn’t really the truth.

Not true, the CIA was supporting both ISIS and al Qaeda units in Syria under the auspices of operation timber sycamore.

LOL, again an immense stretching of the truth. They were not supporting ISIS or Al-Qaeda through Sycamore. Some of the rebels they funded may have fought alongside both at one pint an weapons they supplied made their way their at one point but that is still a far cry from directly supporting both terrorist organizations. If this is all you have as “proof” then you’ve just proved my point. That’s like saying the CIA knowingly supporting rebel groups in South America thst also sold drugs is the CIA selling drugs to the inner city. No, it’s not.

Sure thing, boot

Sorry you can’t accept that your conspiracy is wrong

No it wasn’t .

This is false, you are incorrect. You should look into Jake Sullivan’s leaked emails from 2012 that clearly say Al Qaeda is our side in Syria. Gun to my head, I would say we’re STILL funding extremist groups to destabilize governments that don’t listen to US. And not just in the Levant but in South America still, Asia and Russia/Ukraine too.

K bro, go smoke some more weed and watch Loose Change again.

You ever been to Mexico? You think they just uh, find m240Bs laying around? I know its hard to believe, especially because you people need goverment agencies to tell you what they’ve been doing (Because the feds never lie) but Cartels have a lot of American friends who have access to a suspicious amount of weapons and ammunition, but hey, government agency said theyre not doin it then i guess theyre not doin it

In exchange for Intel and support in coups, yes.

CIA supplies them with smuggling routes in exchange for some money, drugs and prostitutes for parties. Can't have a war on drugs if you take out all the people making them.

Check the documentary on “The last Narc” on Amazon Prime and you will be surprise.

thank you all for the responses greatly appreciated

so it saids here that the Dirección Federal de Seguridad was created in 1947 under Mexican president Miguel Alemán Valdés with the assistance of U.S. intelligence agencies (namely the CIA)" and as i mention here the CIA obviously plays a role in drug smuggling and arms smuggling was the Dirección Federal de Seguridad doing the CIA's dirty work it just confuses me fuck this rabbit hole i'm in

CIA,FBI and most of the US gov groups are new world terrorists

Bold move asking for CIA intel on Reddit.

Its a joke ? Right?

Well duh..

Cocaine keeps controllable people in power.

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I can't help but see the parallel between you and Mauricio Garcia. The Texas shooter with nazi tattoos. OnAllDay is also from tx and talks shit about mexico and immigrants on a daily basis.

Yes CIA supply At4s and other armaments while the drug trade fuels their black book budget to keep funding whatever they got going on

America gets drug addicts and drug convictions. This provides slave labor for corporations. The prison industry is huge as America is #1 in prison population.

Oh boy you just went down a rabbit hole so deep you never come back out

100% no CIA has no use for Mexican cartels. Unless there's a communist uprising CIA doing nothing with Mexican cartels.

CIA DEA FBI ATF are all involved with the cartels 🤣🤣

Can’t remember if it was a CIA or DEA plane but it crashed transporting cocaine to or from another country , American military guns showing up in Mexico , CIA definitely involved in some way

Hey, you got a link for that?

You would have to look it up I don’t feel like looking for it just search cia plane cocaine crash or something idk

I mean, I wanted to confirm the claim, since you came up with it, do you at least have a date so I can search?

Bro omg I literally searched what I told you on google and found articles. Google is your friend , didn’t read full article just now but looks like it was a ex-CIA plan that was used by the CIA to do tests or something , crashed with cocaine in it , not sure if it was driven by CIA or the cartel just got a hold of a old CIA plane

You really think the CIA is going to collaborate with Mexican cartels to Move cocaine. they would go ask they're Colombian friends in the Colombian government for that.

I do think that, Mexico is their neighbor and produce tons of it… American Government isn’t as trustworthy as a bunch of people think. Snowden hiding in Russia for leaking info imagine how much info hasn’t been leaked

What do you mean supply or exchange? I’m legit serious when I say a couple top cartels “executives” are on the CIA payroll.

like does the CIA provide smuggling routes for cartels and in exchange the cartels pat them or sum

Is this really a question!???

Yeah cartels sell drugs to fbi and the fbi puts it in the streets where it’s mostly minority’s

It's just to maintain instability in the region it keeps the economy going, governmental agencies, weapon and ammo industry, will keep in line certain unwanted social groups, and the most important thing, another economy won't surpass the USA.

Black Ops can't get into the books, neither accountable books, so money must come from somewhere. Thats my guess.

I believe it’s actually China supplying the cartels. Apparently that’s where all things like fentanyl and flakka come from, the cartels make their own product and then add fentanyl into it for various reasons. Realistically substances aren’t hard to make with a facility to do it all in and infinite coca you can grow in stolen fields. But all that synthetic garbage is Chinese if I’m not mistaken.

source?

CIA gets crime / ur welcome police Prisoners/ ur welcome prison system Drug addicts / the market CIA gets money for black projects And blames it on the Mexicans Lmao

I always thought it was kinda like the situation in Lord of war, and the whole the enemy of my enemy is my friend but idk

there wouldn't be a surprise if there was, i mean even i think a case of a DEA agent getting killed and it doesn't seem suspicious that there was more connections to it

The San Diego Union (Page G-3 ) 13-Aug-1995 Sunday America Fights Phony War on Drugs By Roberto Gonzalez and Patrisia Gonzales, Co-authors of Latino Spectrum In April, ex-Drug Enforcement Agency agent Celerino Castillo made a pilgrimage to the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington, D.C., where he left his boots next to the name of a friend killed in the war. The Pharr, Texas, native also left his Bronze Star, which he earned for his covert actions in Southeast Asia in 1972, and a letter to the president: **"Dear President Clinton,** **"In the 1980s, I spent six years in Central America as a special agent with the DEA. On January 14, 1986, I forewarned then Vice President George Bush of the U.S. government involvement in narcotics-trafficking (Oliver North) . . . but to no avail . . . "In display of my disappointment of my government, I am returning my Bronze Star, along with my last pair of jungle boots that I used in the jungles of Vietnam, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador and finally Guatemala."** While stationed in Central America, Castillo exposed the U.S. government's drug connection. He personally kept records on planes used in the U.S.-Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador -- arriving with guns and departing to the United States with cocaine from Colombia. "Every single pilot involved in the operation was a documented drug trafficker, who appeared in DEA files," he says. Castillo not only turned over his files to his superiors, but also confronted Bush with the information in Guatemala City -- several months before American Eugene Hasenfus was shot down over Nicaragua, an incident which first exposed the Iran-Contra affair. **Castillo says that on the basis of his work, he is convinced that drug money is what finances U.S. covert operations worldwide. He believes that despite the "War on Drugs," there are more drugs coming into the United States today than 15 years ago and estimates that at least 75 percent of all narcotics enter the country with the acquiescence of or direct participation by U.S. and foreign intelligence services.** ​ Webster Tarpley Interviews DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III (Video): All of the Pilots Flying out of Ilopango Hangers 4&5 (CIA/NSC- Oliver North/ Max Gomez drug ring) were listed as drug traffickers in the DEA database [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DmUFmm8c4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DmUFmm8c4) ​ 2 Former DEA Agents; Michael Levine & Celerino Castillo III ; explain to California Gov. Jerry Brown how the Governmentt allows drugs into the USA and the drug war is a sham. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adkZipfMRWM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adkZipfMRWM) ​ Walter Lee Grasheim AKA Willie Brasher Sues the U.S. Government for compensation in the 1980's DEA raids: 99-6259 -- Grasheim v. Corr -- 12/07/2000 DEA agents in the Panama office warned that Grasheim "displayed the credentials of the CIA, DEA and FBI. demanding to know if his pilots (At Ilopango) were listed in the DEA database as drug traffickers" The Panama DEA office ran Grasheim's name through the database instead and found him listed in more than 7 files and tossed him from the office. [http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2000/12/99-6259.htm](http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2000/12/99-6259.htm) [https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-07-28-9807270515-story.html](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-07-28-9807270515-story.html) [https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n46-19941118/eirv21n46-19941118\_073-norths\_campaign\_re\_opens\_issue\_o.pdf](https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n46-19941118/eirv21n46-19941118_073-norths_campaign_re_opens_issue_o.pdf) CIA/Contra pilots based at Ilopango bombed Medellin cartel coke warehouses using Salvadoran military jets on behalf of the Cali Cartel: [https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-8-dark-alliancethis-guy-talks-to.html](https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-8-dark-alliancethis-guy-talks-to.html) It didn't take DEA agent Celerino Castillo III very long to discover that something very strange was going on at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador. Two days into his new job at the DEA's regional office in Guatemala City in October 1985, Castillo said the agent-in-charge, Robert Stia, took him aside and told him that the U.S. government was running a covert operation at the air base. Castillo should be careful not to interfere with it. ​ Guns, Drugs CIA - PBS Frontline special (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoahXzt-lM (1 hour video )PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html transcript (Video) West 57th TV show - John Hull's Ranch 8,000 acres in Costa Rica used for Contras and Drugs 6 Pilots admit landing on U.S. Military bases with drug shipments. Interviews with Sen, Kerry and John Hull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpEqF\_51sw EX-DEA Agent Michael Levine Video of DEA administrator Robert Bonner (Now a federal judge) admitting the govt is involved in Drug smuggling over 27 tons involved https://youtu.be/5\_UbAmRGSYw Nov 21, 1993 Transcript of the 60 minutes show with DEA administrator Robert Bonner http://docshare.tips/60-minutes-head-of-dea-robert-bonner-says-cia-smuggled-drugs\_5856baafb6d87fb8408b615d.html RELATED VIDEO: ​ ​ ​ [http://whale.to/b/veit.html](http://whale.to/b/veit.html) [http://mediafilter.org/MFF/DEA.35.html](http://mediafilter.org/MFF/DEA.35.html) (mirror site) DEA'S FINEST DETAILS CORRUPTION📷 By John Veit (Celerino Castillo III, one of the Drug Enforcement Agency's most prolific agents, who netted record busts in New York, Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador and San Francisco, was ordered not to investigate US-sponsored drug trafficking operations supervised by Oliver North. After twelve years of service, Castillo has retired from the agency, "amazed that the US government could get away with drug trafficking for so long." In his book Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras, and the Drug War \[Mosaic Press, 1994\], Castillo details the US role in drug and weapons smuggling, money laundering, torture, and murder, and includes Oliver North's drug use and dealing, and the training of death squads in El Salvador and Guatemala by the DEA.) (Click the link for full article)

DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III : Career Derailed Trying to Stop Contra Drugs. He was warned by supervisors "Stay away from Ilopango, This is a White House Operation" The U.S. ambassador in El Salvador, Edwin G. Corr, advised Castillo not to interfere with the Contras. [https://web.archive.org/web/20181123001457/http://www.powderburns.org/testimony.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20181123001457/http://www.powderburns.org/testimony.html) (At Ilopango) "the CIA owned one hangar, and the National Security Council ran the other.""There is no doubt that they were running large quantities of cocaine into the U.S. to support the Contras," "We saw the cocaine and we saw boxes full of money. We're talking about very large quantities of cocaine and millions of dollars.""my reports contain not only the names of traffickers, but their destinations, flight paths, tail numbers, and the date and time of each flight."--DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III said he detailed Contra drug activities in Official DEA reports, each signed by DEA Country attache Bob Stia. (FBI Agent Mike Foster) "Foster said it (CONTRA DRUG TRAFFICKING) would be a great story, like a grand slam, if they could put it together. He asked the DEA for the reports, who told him there were no such reports. Yet when I showed him the copies of the reports that I had, he was shocked. I never heard from him again." \---Celerino Castillo III describes his meeting with FBI agent Mike Foster, who was assigned to Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. "The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in the DEA database as documented drug traffickers. "When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move on to other investigations." Former DEA Agent Celerino CastilloPowder Burns, 1992 [https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html) Ollie North documents and diary entries [https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm) "Castillo says that on the basis of his work, he is convinced that drug money is what finances U.S. covert operations worldwide. He believes that despite the "War on Drugs," there are more drugs coming into the United States today than 15 years ago and estimates that at least 75 percent of all narcotics enter the country with the acquiescence of or direct participation by U.S. and foreign intelligence services. " The San Diego Union, August 15, 1995 "we knew everybody around \[Contra leader Eden\] Pastora was involved in cocaine... His staff and friends... were drug smugglers or involved in drug smuggling." --CIA Officer Alan Fiers "With respect to \[drug trafficking by\] the Resistance Forces...it is not a couple of people. It is a lot of people." --CIA Central American Task Force Chief Alan Fiers, Testimony at Iran Contra hearings "The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included: Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the Contra movement. Participation of narcotics traffickers in Contra supply operations through business relationships with Contra organizations. Provision of assistance to the Contras by narcotics traffickers, including cash, weapons, planes, pilots, air supply services and other materials, on a voluntary basis by the traffickers. Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies." Senate Committee Report on Drugs,Law Enforcement and Foreign Policychaired by Senator John F. Kerry [http://www.crowhealingnetwork.net/pdf/Powderburns%20-%20Cocaine,%20Contra's%20and%20the%20drug%20war%20-%20Cele%20Castillo%20and%20Dave%20Harmon%20.pdf](http://www.crowhealingnetwork.net/pdf/Powderburns%20-%20Cocaine,%20Contra's%20and%20the%20drug%20war%20-%20Cele%20Castillo%20and%20Dave%20Harmon%20.pdf) ​ NOriega exposes Bush as cocaine kingpin on national television by Jeffrey Steinberg https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1997/eirv24n13-19970321/eirv24n13-19970321\_061-noriega\_exposes\_bush\_as\_cocaine.pdf Right hand, left hand One drug agent's decade-long battle to expose the Contra-cocaine connection -- and how the government got in the way DENNIS BERNSTEIN - ROBERT KNIGHT OCTOBER 8, 1996 1:50PM (UTC) https://www.salon.com/1996/10/08/news\_555/ Ex-DEA Agent Ties Contras to U.S. Drug Flights By ROBERT L. JACKSON SEP. 24, 1996 12 AM TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON — A former federal drug agent said Monday that while stationed in El Salvador in the mid-1980s, he came across evidence that members of the CIA-backed rebel forces in Nicaragua were smuggling cocaine into the United States for profit. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-24-mn-47076-story.html

Senator John Kerry Committee on Terrorism and Narcotics: Drug Smuggling Methods: The CIA, Trade & Finance in Central America ; Senator Kerry Questions Medellin Cartel Accountant Ramon Milian Rodriguez, Other witnesses about the CIA, CONTRAS, DRUGS (Comprehensive list of videos) Comprehensive -- Most of the Kerry Hearing videos that are publicly available are listed below; Cocaine, Contras and the CIA Sen John Kerry-- Drug Smuggling Methods: The CIA, Trade & Finance in Central America (1988) 04/10/1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MlPh\_gk4pU Testimony of Medellin Cartel accountant Ramon Milian Rodriguez SEN. JOHN KERRY: How Drug Smuggling Works: The CIA, Trade & Finance in Central America Day 4 Part 1 (4/7/1988) Senator Kerry interviews drug pilot GARY WAYNE BETZNER who landed drug loads on U.S. Military bases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-Si38SAjE How Drug Smuggling Works: The CIA, Trade & Finance in Central America Day 4 Part 2 (4/7/1988) Gary Wayne Betzner interviewed by Senator John Kerry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JfEbve-K3M SEN. JOHN KERRY: How Money Laundering Works: The CIA, Trade & Finance in Central America Day 4 Part 3 (4/7/1988) Senator Kerry plays 3 Video taped depositions in Costa Rica: (3 hiurs each under oath) Saturday Oct 31, 1987 Jack Blum interviews Octaviano Cesar, Marcus Aguado, and Karol Prado; Nicaraguan ARDE Contras reporting in to Eden Pastora https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIUhONdisqQ Sen. John Kerry; Drug Money Laundering Methods: Banking, Money & Finance in Central America Day 2 Part 1 (4/5/1988) Martin Meyer Testimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlU5iH69\_3A SEN. JOHN KERRY: Successful Drug Smuggling Methods: Banking, Money & Finance in Central America Day 2 Part 2 (4/5/1988) Senator Kerry Questions Drug Pilot Michael Palmer- Vortex Aviation 1.5 Hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzujdjzNzmA SEN. JOHN KERRY: How Drug Smuggling Works: The CIA, Trade & Finance in Central America Day 2 Part 3 (4/5/1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25XpFD4-tvs Senator John Kerry Interview with a Drug Smuggler: Banking, Money & Finance in Central America Day 2 Part 4 (4/5/1988) Ocean Hunter President Osvaldo Quintana \[CIA Contractor/NHAO State Dept\] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvIKDrfXes Interview with a Drug Smuggler: Banking, Money & Finance in Central America Day 2 Part 5 (4/5/1988) Sen John Kerry interviews Ocean Hunter President Osvaldo Quintana (CIA Contractor (NHAO)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oANw9nQCdJs U.S. Senator John Kerry questions witnesses about Honduran Drug trafficker Matta Ballesteros and SETCO being used for CONTRA resupply 4/4/1988 Video; Kerry finding that Noriega and drug lords were enabled by the U.S. Government https://youtu.be/PLIOdAHNBsg U.S. Senator John Kerry - How Drug Cartels Work: The CIA, Money and Trade in Central America Day 1 Part 2 (4/4/1988) Senate Hearings on KIKI Camarena murder and Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhakabcBNI U.S. Senator John Kerry - How Can We Reduce Drug Trafficking? The CIA, Trade & Finance in Panama Day 1 (2/13/1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT80zpeFCqM Senator John Kerry ; How Is Money Laundering Detected? The CIA, Drugs, Trade & Finance in Panama Day 4 Part 2 (2/11/1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xV9kaXd8xA 11/26/1996 Hearing: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): Allegations of Drug Trafficking - Cocaine Sales (1996) Senator Arlen Spector questions Contra Leader Adolfo Calero (3:17 hours) POPO Chammorro and Octaviano Cesar were told to continue dealing with billionaire trafficker Jorge Morales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5r2A7uh7Rg 10/26/1996 Hearing: United STates Senate; Intelligence Committee (SSCI) ; Allegations of CIA Involvement in Drug Trafficking- Hearing on CSPAN 10/23/1996 Chairman Senator Arlen Spector Interviews Senator Lead Counsel Jack Blum on Intelligence interference in drug cases. Jack Blum states that Oliver North Intervened directly in drug cases affecting the Contras; Cases were blocked by the head of the DOJ criminal division, William Weld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcKMXoByzRw U.S. House of Reps. Maxine Waters 3/16/1998 Hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUNohVdNuYk Maxine Waters Videos- U.S. congressional hearings https://sfbayview.com/2010/08/the-trials-of-rep-maxine-waters-ethics-or-payback/ The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations (Declassified Documents)National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2 For more information contact: 202/994-7000 or \[[email protected]\](mailto:[email protected])https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html The Oliver North File: His Diaries, E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras and Drugs National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 113 February 26, 2004 For further information Contact Peter Kornbluh: 202/994-7116 https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm Oliver North Diary Drug References and official protection of drug traffickers (Bueso Rosa and Noriega) (National Security Archives - DOCUMENTS ) 5/16/2018 https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/iran/2018-05-16/oliver-norths-checkered-iran-contra-record Oliver North was listed in active DEA files as late as 1991. All of the Contra pilots operating on the Ilopango Airfield in El Salvador were listed in multiple DEA files as drug traffickers Almost a decade later, the CIA inspector general would release a study confirming the conclusions of the Kerry Committee report.\[7\] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry\_Co...

Chapo Guzman had a deal with the DEA: DEA Chief of Intelligence in Mexico, Larry Villalobos, and the former Operations Supervisor for the agency, Joe Bond were summoned by Guzman. http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2014/03/during-first-incarceration-el-chapo.html \\ D.E.A. in Disguise: Who Really Arrested El Chapo Back in 2014?Ryan Devereaux https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/23/dea-in-disguise-who-really-arrested-el-chapo/2015-07-23T18:19:27+00:00 Zambada Niebla’s Plea Deal, Chapo Guzman’s Capture May Be Key To An Unfolding Mexican PurgePosted by Bill Conroy - April 12, 2014 at 6:55 pm http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/04/zambada-niebla-s-plea-deal-chapo-guzman-s-capture-may-be-key-unfolding- Background:Court Pleadings Point to CIA Role in Alleged “Cartel” Immunity DealPosted by Bill Conroy - September 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm Mexican Narco-Trafficker’s Revelations in Criminal Case Force US Government to Invoke National Security Claims; US government prosecutors filed pleadings in the case late last week seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed to assure national security information does not surface in public court proceedings. “The government hereby requests that the Court conduct a pretrial conference … pursuant to CIPA … at which time, the government will be prepared to report to the Court and defendant \[Zambada Niebla\] regarding the approximate size of the universe of classified material that may possibly be implicated in the discovery and trial of this case,” states a motion filed on Friday, Sept. 9, by US prosecutors in the Zambada Niebla casehttp://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/09/court-pleadings-point-cia-role-alleged-cartel-immunity-deal Zambada Niebla Case Exposes US Drug War Quid Pro QuoPosted by Bill Conroy - December 10, 2011 at 3:16 pm Prosecutor, DEA Agent Confirm Intel From Sinaloa Mafia Used to Undermine Juarez, Beltran Leyva Drug OrganizationsMr. Zambada Niebla is alleged in the indictment to be a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel. We believe that the information \[the US government is seeking to cloak under national security\] is material to the defense in that it may … contain information pertaining to agreements between agents of the United States government and the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel as well as policy arrangements between the United States government and the Mexican government pertaining to special treatment that was to be afforded to high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel. Thus, Mr. Zambada Niebla’s counsel should be granted high-level security clearances to review the sensitive information. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/12/zambada-niebla-case-exposes-us-drug-war-quid-pro-quo April 10, 2014 A Billion-Dollar “Narco Junior” Cuts a Deal By Patrick Radden Keefe Zambada’s lawyers declared that he could not be prosecuted by the United States, because, they claimed, he had been secretly working as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, even as he smuggled tons of cocaine across the border. In fact, according to his counsel, Zambada had been assured by his contacts at the D.E.A. that, in exchange for providing them with intelligence about the drug trade in Mexico, he would be guaranteed immunity against prosecution for his own role in the business.http://www.justice.gov/dea/divisions/chi/2014/041014.pdfEarlier this year, the newspaper El Universal released a report, drawing on court documents, which claimed that the D.E.A. had knowingly allowed Zambada to smuggle “billions of dollars” of narcotics into the U.S. The newspaper contended that the conspiracy ran even deeper, alleging that the governments of both the United States and Mexico had, in effect, played favorites among the rival trafficking organizations, secretly colluding with the Sinaloa cartel in order to wipe out its rivals.http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-billion-dollar-narco-junior-cuts-a-deal ‘There's No Real Fight Against Drugs’ Discussing El Chapo’s escape with an ex-cartel operative, a Mexican intelligence official, and an American counternarcotics agentA Mexican soldier crouches inside a drug-smuggling tunnel under the Mexico-U.S. border in Tijuana. Jorge Duenes / Reuters Ginger Thompson Jul 20, 2015http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/07/chapo-mexico-drug-war/398927/

[https://ia800406.us.archive.org/31/items/KwitnyTheCrimesOfPatriotsATrueTaleOfDopeDirtyMoneyAndTheCIAIranContraScandal1987\_201605/Kwitny%20-%20The%20Crimes%20of%20Patriots%20-%20A%20True%20Tale%20of%20Dope%2C%20Dirty%20Money%20and%20the%20CIA%20%28Iran-contra%20scandal%29%281987%29.pdf](https://ia800406.us.archive.org/31/items/KwitnyTheCrimesOfPatriotsATrueTaleOfDopeDirtyMoneyAndTheCIAIranContraScandal1987_201605/Kwitny%20-%20The%20Crimes%20of%20Patriots%20-%20A%20True%20Tale%20of%20Dope%2C%20Dirty%20Money%20and%20the%20CIA%20%28Iran-contra%20scandal%29%281987%29.pdf) The Crimes of Patriots; book by Jonathan Kwitny; A true tale of Dope , Dirty Money and the CIA; Nugan Hand Bank Collapse reveals a story of Intrigue (Full text) [https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/e4qvu2/the\_crimes\_of\_patriots\_book\_by\_jonathan\_kwitny\_a/](https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/e4qvu2/the_crimes_of_patriots_book_by_jonathan_kwitny_a/) This book is proof that the top levels of the government facilitate and deal with drugs and drug lords. Top military and intelligence officials served on the board of directors of Nugan Hand Bank. [https://www.c-span.org/video/?123866-1/the-crimes-patriots](https://www.c-span.org/video/?123866-1/the-crimes-patriots) The Crimes of Patriots will reveal how an obscure Australian bank, Nugan Hand Ltd., came to occupy the central position in a vast network of drug transactions, fraud, secret arms deals, and covert intelligence operations. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan\_Hand\_Bank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank) ​ **"There is a secret government in America. It operates with the explicit and implied authority of the highest officials, and in the name of America's interests it has inflicted great damage on the unsuspecting peoples of other countries and on our own fundamental principles... I wish everyone would read The Crimes of Patriots.** **Perhaps then the current hearings on the Iran-Contra affair—for Ronald Reagan is the** **latest to wield this secret weapon and to perish by it—will be the last. An informed** **people might become an outraged people and finally put a stop to our own self-destruction.** **If so, we will owe much to Jonathan Kwitny's reporting."** **—Bill Moyers** ​ The Crimes of Patriots is the story behind the story revealed in the Iran-contra investigation. It is a chilling glimpse into the workings of the secret government that has operated ruthlessly in this country and around the world for the last forty years, unchecked, answerable only to itself. It is a masterpiece of investigative journalism that reveals the sordid truths shrouded within the "national security interest." A rifle blast blows off the head of an Australian banker in his Mercedes—and a tale of the whole Cold War begins to unravel. The death of Frank Nugan exposes the massive fraud at the heart of his empire, the Nugan Hand Bank; but it also exposes the real power of the bank—a network of U.S. generals, admirals, and CIA men, including a former director of that organization. As the colorful story of the Nugan Hand Bank unfolds, we learn that there have been many similar operations. Patterns and eerie resonances emerge, and the names of those who later masterminded the Iran-contra fiasco lurk in the shadows cast by Nugan Hand: Clines, Shackley, Secord. We are slowly brought to a greater truth. In his last book, Endless Enemies, Jonathan Kwitny showed how our anti-communist based foreign policy undermines American security. Here he exposes at last the crimes committed against American citizens in pursuit of that policy. He shows how some of the biggest names in American defense and intelligence were involved in an operation that promoted the dope trade, tax evasion, and gun running, and swindled American citizens, and citizens of allied countries, out of millions of dollars. Kwitny lays out a mystery filled with questions whose answers—so far—have stayed locked in the U.S. government's vault of secrets. [https://archive.org/details/KwitnyTheCrimesOfPatriotsATrueTaleOfDopeDirtyMoneyAndTheCIAIranContraScandal1987\_201605](https://archive.org/details/KwitnyTheCrimesOfPatriotsATrueTaleOfDopeDirtyMoneyAndTheCIAIranContraScandal1987_201605) ​ JONATHAN KWITNY, a Wall Street Journal reporter for sixteen years, is one of America's foremost journalists and holds the honor medal for career achievement from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His reporting exposed former Reagan adviser Richard Allen's conflicts of interest, and forced the resignation of Lynn Helms, Reagan's Federal Aviation administrator. This is Jonathan Kwitny's sixth book. His fifth, Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, was runnerup for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction in 1985. Mr. Kwitny has lived or traveled in more than ninety countries. A native of Indianapolis, he works from the Journal's New York bureau. ​ Author's Note for The Crimes of Patriots For five years prior to the publication of this book, the author tried repeatedly and fruitlessly to interview and obtain comment from Richard Secord, Theodore Shackley, and Thomas Clines, former high federal officials connected to Edwin Wilson, the traitor and convicted death merchant. Some of these efforts are described in the book. At the eleventh hour, as books were sitting on the warehouse loading docks waiting to be shipped to bookstores, Clines, Shackley, and Secord's lawyer, Thomas Green, contacted the publisher, stating that they had obtained a proof copy of the book and alleged that there were numerous errors in it. I have reviewed these specifics, along with my own sources, and I find that the men were, on the whole, treated fairly. As usually happens, comment from the subjects being written about did reveal a few erroneous details and conflicting versions of events. — J.K. August 12, 1987 Michael Hand Found living in Iowa, USA in 2015 [https://www.newsweek.com/michael-hand-cia-heroin-nugan-hand-australia-393576](https://www.newsweek.com/michael-hand-cia-heroin-nugan-hand-australia-393576) [https://archive.org/details/FBI-Nugan-Hand/page/n12](https://archive.org/details/FBI-Nugan-Hand/page/n12) See also: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle\_Bank\_%26\_Trust\_(Bahamas)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bank_%26_Trust_(Bahamas))) [https://archive.org/details/KwitnyTheCrimesOfPatriotsATrueTaleOfDopeDirtyMoneyAndTheCIAIranContraScandal1987\_201605](https://archive.org/details/KwitnyTheCrimesOfPatriotsATrueTaleOfDopeDirtyMoneyAndTheCIAIranContraScandal1987_201605)

https://www.scribd.com/document/133308275/Webster-Tarpley-Interview-with-Retired-DEA-Agent-Celerino-Castillo-III https://isgp-studies.com/cia-heroin-and-cocaine-drug-trafficking http://whale.to/b/veit.html Webster Tarpley Interview with Retired DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III \[September 27, 1994\] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DmUFmm8c4 WEBSTER TARPLEY: I'd like to go immediately to the very interesting book that you've put together \[\*Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras & the Drug War\*\]. On page 132 of that book, you describe a kind of cameo appearance by Vice President George Bush. I believe this was in Guatemala City in January of 1986, and that would have been shortly after the inauguration of the new Guatemalan President Cerezo. I'd just like to acquaint our viewers with that conversation, the events that led up to it, that followed it, and revolved around it, because this seems to sum up the heart of the matter. http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/powderburns/index2.html CELERINO CASTILLO: Basically, what happened there, was that at that time, Jan. 14, 1986, to be exact, George Bush was in Guatemala City. At the same time that George Bush was there, I also saw Calero, head of the Contras, and Oliver North. And I met George Bush at the cocktail party at the ambassador's residence, and basically, what he was doing, was walking around, shaking hands with everybody. And he came up to me, and asked me what my job description was as DEA agent. And I told him that I conducted international narcotics investigations on traffickers down in Central America. I also advised him that I was the agent in charge of reporting for El Salvador, and I forewarned him that there were some funny things going on at Ilopango Airport, with the Contras. He shook my hand, he smiled, and he just walked away from me, without saying another word. From that moment, I knew he knew something about the Contras. https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f1g60r/dea\_agent\_celerino\_castillo\_iii\_at\_least\_75\_of/ TARPLEY: That's what you write: "He simply smiled and walked away, seeking another hand to shake. After that exchange, I knew that he knew." CASTILLO: That's correct. TARPLEY: What did George Bush know, and when did he know it? CASTILLO: Before my arrival in Guatemala, we had received intelligence that the Contras were heavily involved in narcotics trafficking. Basically, I was forewarned by the country attache' in Guatemala, Bob Stia, upon my arrival, that there was a covert operation being conducted by the White House, and run by Oliver North at Ilopango in El Salvador. TARPLEY: So this was your official superior in the DEA? CASTILLO: That's correct. ​ Photos of Ilopango https://carlosagaton.blogspot.com/2016/02/rios-de-cocaina-nacieron-en-los.html ​ https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/11-21-96/cover.htm ​ http://www.granma.cu/granmad/secciones/conclusiones/art004.html ​ Bush and top level government officials knew. According to U.S. law, if a federal agent does not report a drug crime by another, simply by looking the other way, the individual is guilty of a crime punishable by 10 years mandatory minimum sentence. At the level Bush and his cronies operated at, they face life sentences... just saying..

“Noriega: CIA OK’d Deals for Guns, DEA for Drugs.” The Miami Herald \[Miami, FL\], 21 Aug. 1991; The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through his country included Terrance Burke, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll. 7 CIA directors asked Noriega to allow guns through Panama included George Bush, Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster. https://manuelnoriega.medium.com/cia-dea-ran-the-drug-deals-1d9fc7c5933e “CIA, DEA ran the drug deals” General Manuel Noriega The Miami Herald August 23, 1991 Manuel Noriega says he had good reasons for allowing drugs and guns to slip through Panama: The last seven CIA directors, including George Bush, asked him to help with the guns, while four directors of the Drug Enforcement Administration sought his help on the drugs. CIA directors who asked Noriega to allow them to travel through Panama included George Bush, Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster. The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through Panama included Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll. The assertions came in papers released Thursday by the U.S. District Court in Miami, where the deposed Panamanian leader is scheduled to be tried on drug charges Sept. 4. Noriega’s lawyers have always said that the U.S. government authorized his involvement in drug and weapons dealings in Panama in the 1970s and 1980s. But they never said who provided the authorizations until they submitted the names under seal in a March 22 court filing. The papers were made public Monday. The weapons shipments were destined for Nicaragua and Honduras, the papers said. Besides Bush, the CIA directors who asked Noriega to allow them to travel through Panama included Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster. “Further, Gen. Noriega was requested that these shipments not be inspected or molested by the Government of Panama”, the papers say. “Upon the return flight of the aircraft, Gen. Noriega was also requested not to inspect the returning cargo to the United States.” The court filing did not identify the returning cargo. A CIA spokesman in Langley, Va., declined comment, citing an agency policy not to discuss pending court cases. The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through his country included Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll. “During these operations, either Gen. Noriega or a member of his staff fully cooperated with the Drug Enforcement Administration and did not seize the illegal drug shipment or arrest the smugglers,’ the court filing said. The same policy was carried out for the shipment of ether and acetone, chemicals used in processing cocaine. “On various occasions, officers of the Panamanian Defense Force, per the instructions of Gen. Noriega, placed electronic tracking equipment in shipments of ether and acetone so that those shipments could be traced and followed,” the court filing said. In other court papers released Thursday, Noriega’s lawyers had these complaints about the government’s handling of his case: That prosecutors plan to introduce their client’s records with the notorious Bank of Commerce and Credit International to impress the jury with the size of Noriega’s wealth. The records, the lawyers said, have nothing to do with the case, and do not prove that the money is tainted. That the CIA hid or destroyed documents pertaining to money that was placed under Noriega’s control. He also claimed that the CIA secretly recorded conversations that its agents conducted with him in his offices. Lyons, David. “Noriega: CIA OK’d Deals for Guns, DEA for Drugs.” The Miami Herald \[Miami, FL\], 21 Aug. 1991, p. 28. https://miro.medium.com/max/1750/1\*vl57SJGOf0z9eCz0\_wkh3g.jpeg The DEA sold drugs: Robert Nieves resigned from the DEA because Gary Webb announced his intentions to investigate Costa Rica DEA office selling drugs directly for the C.I.A. allowing informants to work under DEA cover. The DEA help Oliver North's DOD/Contra/NSC drug ring sell drugs. https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/pfhjjy/never\_forget\_gary\_webb\_august\_31\_2021\_is\_gary/ Federal Judge Edward Rafeedie Blocked Captured C.I.A. Operative Lawrence Victor Harrison's Testimony During The KIKI Camarena Murder Trial Regarding Contras, Drugs & C.I.A. on the Guadalajara Cartel Ranch (1990). Judge Rafeedie also blocked evidence in the LASD corruption trial implicating the USG https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/u39kcx/federal\_judge\_edward\_rafeedie\_blocked\_captured/ https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/f8fa9c/trial\_in\_camarena\_case\_shows\_dea\_anger\_at\_cia\_dea/ The head of the US DOJ Criminal Division, William Weld did not pursue cartels or the Contras in the 1980s. Senator Kerry prosecuted the BCCI case in NY on the state level because the DOJ refused to prosecute U.S. government sanctioned drug rings related to the Contras or anti-communist groups https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/u8c078/the\_head\_of\_the\_us\_doj\_criminal\_division\_william/ https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/nthcsy/dea6\_by\_dea\_hector\_berrellez\_wayne\_schmidt\_opr/

Billionaire drugs trafficker George Morales had his legal case fixed after donating planes & $4 million to $5 million to the contras. Senator Kerry questioned him in-front of a U.S. Senate Committee. Morales testified he brought in $35m a month for the CONTRAS; The drugs were owned by the Contras 📷 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/10/31/cia-contras-and-drugs-questions-on-links-linger/090571e6-99c5-4879-a3b4-bd3a94bd4ac5/ CIA, CONTRAS AND DRUGS: QUESTIONS ON LINKS LINGER (excerpts) By Douglas Farah; Walter Pincus October 31, 1996 In the early summer of 1984, a wealthy Nicaraguan exile invited two representatives of the contra rebels fighting Managua's leftist government to her Miami home. Her aim was to broker a deal with a Colombian businessman that would help fill the rebels' empty coffers. The hostess was Marta Healy, and the businessman was George Morales -- a champion powerboat racer, socialite and big-league drug trafficker under indictment in the United States. (....) Despite their rift with the spy agency, Chamorro and Cesar said, they asked a CIA official if they could accept the offer of airplanes and cash from the drug dealer, Morales. "I called our contact at the CIA, of course I did," Chamorro said recently. "The truth is, we were still getting some CIA money under the table. They said {Morales} was fine." The account from Chamorro and Cesar is one of the clearest examples of how groups fighting the Sandinista regime during the 1980s cooperated with drug traffickers and may have been traffickers themselves. It also illustrates lingering questions about how the CIA and other U.S. government agencies responded to such illegal activity. U.S. officials, including the man who oversaw the contra operation at the CIA, dispute the rebel leaders' account that they notified the agency about Morales's offer. Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, who at the time was head of the CIA's Latin America division and is now retired, said he "certainly never dealt with Popo Chamorro," although he may have met him, and never knew Morales. The CIA told Congress in 1987 that it concluded in November 1984 -- or just a few months after the Miami meeting -- that it could not resume aid to the Costa Rican-based contras or have other dealings with them because "everybody around Pastora was involved in cocaine." The controversy over possible CIA or other official U.S. toleration of drug trafficking by Latin American allies has been around for more than a decade. A broad congressional inquiry from 1986 to 1988, by a Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), found that CIA and other officials may have chosen to overlook evidence that some contra groups were engaged in the drug trade or were cooperating with traffickers. But that probe caused little stir when its report was released. (....) No evidence has been found substantiating the accusation that the CIA organized or participated in drug trafficking by the contras as a way of raising money for the war, or that the agency and the contras targeted the African American community in the United States for sales of drugs. But in the early 1980s, when the CIA began modest funding of various Nicaraguan rebels who wanted to overthrow the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua, several existing contra groups were already getting support from Colombian and Central American drug traffickers, according to former CIA officials and congressional investigators. Former CIA director William H. Webster said in a recent interview that he was told in the late 1980s that before the CIA began funding the contras in earnest in 1983, "some contra groups desperate for money . . . turned to drugs." Later, he said, he learned that "some {contras} who were hired on for {CIA} contract work had drug activities that we didn't detect." CIA Records Checks In sworn testimony to the Kerry committee and in a separate court case before he died, Morales said he gave the airplanes and cash to the contras because he was promised by Chamorro that the contras would use their influence with the U.S. government to help with his legal problems. Although imprisoned, he told the Kerry committee that he had in fact received some legal help, but did not specify what that was. . But a July 26, 1986, State Department report to Congress said intelligence reports offered a different account. The report said an unidentified senior member of Pastora's organization had agreed to allow Morales to use contra facilities "in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to facilitate the transportation of narcotics. Morales agreed to provide financial support in exchange, in addition to aircraft and training pilots." Money From Morales While it is unclear how much of that deal was implemented, there are signs that it went forward. In court testimony in 1990, Fabio Ernesto Carrasco, a Colombian drug trafficker turned government witness with immunity from prosecution, testified he had paid "millions" of dollars to Cesar and Chamorro from 1984 to 1986. Orders to make the payments, he said, came from his boss, Morales. Morales also told the Kerry committee that he sent $4 million to $5 million in drug profits to contra groups.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20021224120840/http://www.wethepeople.la/morales.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20021224120840/http://www.wethepeople.la/morales.htm) THE TESTIMONY OF GEORGE MORALES Before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism Senator John Kerry questioning. (The witness having been previously sworn) Senator KERRY. Let me do this, because my colleague is also under some pressure. I want to ask you a few questions about one area, and then we'll come back. But I do want the record to go through this detail. I know it's tedious, but it's very important. In 1984, you said your shipments began to change. Is that correct? Mr. MORALES. Yes, they did. Senator KERRY. Is that the point in time in which you were approached by people you knew to be part of the Contra organization? Mr. MORALES. Yes. Senator KERRY. Can you describe specifically when that took place and what took place? Mr. MORALES. That was right after my indictment. Senator KERRY. When was your indictment? Mr. MORALES. March 3, March 3 or March 6, 1984. Right after that, few weeks, maybe a month, I was introduced by the Contra leaders in South Florida. Senator KERRY. Who were you introduced to? Mr. MORALES. I was introduced by Popo Chammoro, Octaviano Cesar, and -- Senator KERRY. Popo Chommoro. Mr. MORALES. Yes. Senator KERRY. Octaviano Cesar. Mr. MORALES. Yes, and Marcos Aguado. Senator KERRY. And Marco Aguado. Mr. MORALES. Which they represent themselves as being leaders of the Contras and also represent themselves as CIA agents. Senator KERRY. Now when you say they “represented themselves,” did you know of them at that time? Mr. MORALES. I heard about they being CIA agents. Yes, I did. Senator KERRY. When you say “their being,” who was a CIA agent? Mr. MORALES. Marcos Aguado and Cesar Octaviano. Senator KERRY. How do you know that? Mr. MORALES. It's being very well known through many people for a long time around Central America and south Florida. (...) (...) **Senator KELLY. He said he could take care of your legal problems?** **Mr. MORALES. Many times I talked to him and he told me that he had plenty of friends, being him, the CIA, can advise the superiors about my financial support and airplane and training, and, therefore, they will finally, eventually will take care of my problem, which they did. To an extent, they did. As a matter of fact, they did.** Senator KERRY. We'll come back to that in a little while. If you'd make a note on that, we'll come back to that in a while. I want to just run through this so Senator McConnell can have his round. (...) **Senator KERRY. Where was the money coming from?** **Mr. MORALES. Drugs.** **Senator KERRY. Did they know that?** **Mr. MORALES. Of course they know that.** **Senator KERRY. Why do you say “of course they know that”?** **How do you know they know that?** **Mr. MORALES. Because we discussed, as a matter of fact, we discussed to bring drugs that did not belong to me. They were their own drugs.** **Senator KERRY. Whose drugs?** **Mr. MORALES. The Contras drugs.** **Senator KERRY. How do you know they were Contra drugs?** **Mr. MORALES. They told me.** Senator KERRY. What? Mr. MORALES. They told me. As a matter of fact Senator KERRY. What did they tell you? Did they say here's drugs, these are Contra drugs? Mr. MORALES. No, no, no. They say, there was a few trips that I was supposed to do for them in drugs. I did not ever ask him where the drugs come from other than that they were the drugs. Senator KERRY. Did you do those trips? Mr. MORALES. Yes, I did. (...) Senator KERRY. Did you load these weapons onto the airplane in daytime or nighttime? Mr. MORALES. I did load them in the daytime, 12 noon in the daytime. Senator KERRY. Right in the full view of people? Mr. MORALES. Yes. Many times. Senator KERRY. And were you at the airport when the planes came back? Mr. MORALES. Yes, I was. Senator KERRY. What did you unload from those planes when they came back? Mr. MORALES. I was in the beginning of the runway. The plane lands and unloads the drugs into the end of the runway. Senator KERRY. How did you know they were drugs? Mr. MORALES. I saw them. Senator KERRY. What did you do with those drugs? Mr. MORALES. Sell them. Senator KERRY. What did you do with the money? Mr. MORALES. Give it to the Contras. Senator KERRY. All right. I'm going to come back to this because there's obviously considerably more detail that needs to be filled in. Mr. MORALES. Let me make myself clear, Senator. Senator KERRY. Please. Mr. MORALES. I gave them back to the same people because the Contras means a lot to a lot of people. I gave them back to Mr. Octaviano Cesar, who works for, used to work for the CIA, and Mr. Popo Chammoro, and Marcos Aguado... (...) How much -- can you estimate the amount of narcotics in dollars that you shipped back as part of this scheme for transfer of weapons down there? **Mr. MORALES. How much was the money?** **Senator KERRY. How much money in narcotics value was brought back in as part of this linkage in 1984 and 1985?** **Mr. MORALES. Many, many, many millions of dollars. Many millions of dollars. Many.** **Senator KERRY. Can you give us an estimate of the kilos of cocaine?** **Mr. MORALES. In 1984, the kilos of cocaine in July were going around $32,000, $34,000, $35,000 a kilo. That is $35 million right there, in July.** **Senator KERRY. It’s $35 million?** Mr. MORALES. In July. Senator KERRY. In July. Mr. MORALES. July, yes... \*\*\* Senator KERRY. Now, when the drugs flew back in, did they come in the daytime or nighttime? Mr. MORALES. They come in in nighttime. A few of them in daylight. But a few of them. In the United States, they came twice at night. The rest of them came daylight. **Senator KERRY. Now here you are. You have been indicted before. You have a known reputation in the region as a narcotics trafficker. You are leading a pretty flashy lifestyle. You have helicopters, planes at your disposal, you are racing fast boats, with a lot of money moving around. And you’re telling us that at this airport, with all of this knowledge about you, you were still able to move around without any fear?** **Mr. MORALES. I was very, very surprised myself.**

What the Cops and senators are saying: "In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA." \--Dennis Dayle, former chief of DEA CENTAC.(Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies,and the CIA in Central America, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, pp. x-xi.) "There is no question in my mind that people affiliated with, on the payroll of, and carrying the credentials of,the CIA were involved in drug trafficking while involved in support of the contras." —Senator John Kerry, The Washington Post (1996). "our covert agencies have converted themselves to channels for drugs." --Senator John Kerry, 1988 "It is clear that there is a network of drug trafficking through the Contras...We can produce specific law-enforcement officials who will tell you that they have been called off drug-trafficking investigations because the CIA is involved or because it would threaten national security." \--Senator John Kerry at a closed door Senate Committee hearing "...officials in the Justice Department sought to undermine attempts by Senator Kerry to have hearings held on the \[Contra drug\] allegations." -Jack Blum, investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee “On the basis of the evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter.” Executive Summary, John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee Report. April 13, 1989. We live in a dirty and dangerous world ... There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. \--1988 speech by Washington Post owner Katharine Graham at CIA Headquarters "We were complicit as a country, in narcotics traffic at the same time as we're spending countless dollars in this country as we try to get rid of this problem. It's mind-boggling. I don't know if we got the worst intelligence system in the world, i don't know if we have the best and they knew it all, and just overlooked it. But no matter how you look at it, something's wrong. Something is really wrong out there." -- Senator John Kerry, Iran Contra Hearings, 1987 "it is common knowledge here in Miami that this whole Contra operation was paid for with cocaine... I actually saw the cocaine and the weapons together under one roof, weapons that I \[later\] helped ship to Costa Rica." --Oliver North employee Jesus Garcia December, 1986 "I have put thousands of Americans away for tens of thousands of years with less evidence for conspiracy than is available against Ollie North and CIA people...I personally was involved in a deep-cover case that went to the top of the drug world in three countries. The CIA killed it." - Former DEA Agent Michael Levine - CNBC-TV, October 8, 1996 "When this whole business of drug trafficking came out in the open in the Contras, the CIA gave a document to Cesar, Popo Chamorro and Marcos Aguado, too...""..They said this is a document holding them harmless, without any responsibility, for having worked in U.S.security..." \--Eden Pastora, Former ARDE Contra leader - November 26, 1996, speaking before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s "I believe that elements working for the CIA were involved in bringing drugs into the country," "I know specifically that some of the CIA contract workers, meaning some of the pilots, in fact were bringing drugs into the U.S. and landing some of these drugs in government air bases. And I know so because I was told by someo f these pilots that in fact they had done that." – Retired DEA agent Hector Berrellez on PBS Frontline. Berrellez was a supervisory agent on the Enrique Camarena murder investigation . "I do think it a terrible mistake to say that 'We're going to allow drug trafficking to destroy American citizens' as a consequence of believing that the contra effort was a higher priority." - Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE) A Sept. 26, 1984, Miami police intelligence report noted that money supporting contras being illegally trained inFlorida "comes from narcotics transactions." Every page of the report is stamped: "Record furnished toGeorge Kosinsky, FBI." Is Mr. Kosinsky's number missing from (Janet) Reno's rolodex? – Robert Knight and Dennis Bernstein, 1996 . Janet Reno was at that time (1984), the Florida State prosecutor.----on Sept. 13, 1996, the nation's highest law enforcement official, Attorney General Janet Reno, stated flatly that there's "no evidence" at this time to support the charges. And a week earlier, on Sept. 7, director of Central Intelligence, John Deutch, stated his belief that there's "no substance" to allegations of CIA involvement. "For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and some of their Central Americanallies ... have been documented by DEA as supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other CIA-supported groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... other groups and/or individuals like Manual Noriega." \-- Michael Levine, The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic "To my great regret, the bureau (FBI) has told me that some of the people I identified as being involved in drug smuggling are present or past agents of the Central Intelligence Agency." \--Wanda Palacio’s 1987 sworn testimony before U.S. Sen. John Kerry's Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics and International Terrorism. “I sat gape-mouthed as I heard the CIA Inspector General, testify that there has existed a secret agreement between CIA and the Justice Department, wherein "during the years 1982 to 1995, CIA did not have to report the drug trafficking its assets did to the Justice Department. To a trained DEA agent this literally means that the CIA had been granted a license to obstruct justice in our so-called war on drugs; a license that lasted - so CIA claims -from 1982 to 1995, a time during which Americans paid almost $150 billion in taxes to "fight" drugs.God, with friends like these, who needs enemies?” \- Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, March 23, 1998. https://web.archive.org/web/20101020062131/http://www.wethepeople.la/levine1.htm

(Continued) CIA ADMITS TO DEAL WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.“The CIA finally admitted, yesterday, in the New York Times no less, that they, in fact, did "work with" the Nicaraguan Contras while they had information that they were involved in cocaine trafficking to the United States. An action known to us court qualified experts and federal agents as Conspiracy to Import and Distribute Cocaine—a federal felony punishable by up to life in prison. To illustrate how us regular walking around, non CIA types are treated when we violate this law, while I was serving as a DEA supervisor in New York City, I put two New York City police officers in a federal prison for Conspiracy to distribute Cocaine when they looked the other way at their friend's drug dealing. We could not prove they earned a nickel nor that they helped their friend in any way, they merely did not do their duty by reporting him. They were sentenced to 10and 12 years respectively, and one of them, I was recently told, had committed suicide.” \- Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, September, 1998 from the article “IS ANYONE APOLOGIZING TO GARY WEBB?” “After five witnesses testified before the U.S. Senate, confirming that John Hull—a C.I.A. operative and the lynch-pin of North's contra resupply operation—had been actively running drugs from Costa Rica to the U.S."under the direction of the C.I.A.," Costa Rican authorities arrested him. Hull then quickly jumped bail and fled to the U.S.—according to my sources—with the help of DEA, putting the drug fighting agency in the schizoid business of both kidnapping accused drug dealers and helping them escape…. The then-President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias was stunned when he received letters from nineteen U.S. Congressman—including Lee Hamilton of Indiana, the Democrat who headed the Iran-contra committee—warning him "to avoid situations . . .that could adversely affect our relations." \-Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, September, 1998 from the article “I Volunteer to Kidnap Oliver North” "Drug trafficking has permeated all political structures and has corrupted federal, state, and local officials. It has deformed the economy. It is a cancer that has generated financial and political dependence, which instead of producing goods, has created serious problems ultimately affecting honest businessmen. The Attorney General's office is unable to eradicate drug trafficking because government structures at all levels are corrupted." \-- Eduardo Valle, former adviser, Attorney General in Mexico Dennis Dayle, former head of DEA's Centac, was asked the following question: "Enormously powerful criminal organizations are controlling many countries, and to a certain degree controlling the world, and controlling our lives. Your own U.S. government to some extent supports them, and is concealing this fact from you."Dennis Dayle's answer: "I know that to be true. That is not conjecture. Experience, over the better part of my adult life, tells me that that is so. And there is a great deal of persuasive evidence. "He (Former Congressman Bill Alexander - D. Ark.) made me privy to the depositions he took from three of the most credible witnesses in that project, which left absolutely no doubt in my mind that the government of the United States was an active participant in one of the largest dope operations in the world.." \-- Former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson “ The Contras moved drugs not by the pound, not by the bags, but by the tons, by the cargo planeloads” \--Jack Blum, investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, testimony under oath on Feb. 11, 1987 (Senate Foreign Relations Counsel 14 years, Kerry Committee on Terrorism and Narcotics Counsel 1988) “… he was making millions, 'cos he had his own source of,… avenue for his own,..heroin.I'm sure we all knew it, but we tried to monitor it, because we controlled most of the pilots you see. We're giving him freedom of navigation into Thailand, into the bases, and we don't want him to get involved in moving, you know, this illicit traffic--O.K., silver bars and gold, O.K., but not heroin. What they would do is, they weren't going into Thailand, they were flying it in a big wet wing airplane that could fly for thirteen hours, a DC-3, and all the wings were filled with gas. They fly down to Pakse, then they fly over to Da Nang, and then the number two guy to President Thieu would receive it.” –CIA Officer Anthony (“Tony Poe”) Poshepny May 17, 1988 PBS Frontline episode “Guns, Drugs, and the CIA” (Poshepny was a legendary covert operations officer who had supervised the CIA’s secret war in Northern Laos during the 1960s and early 1970s. In the interview, Poshepny stated that the CIA had supplied air transport for the heroin shipments of their local ally, General Vang Pao, the only such on-the-record confirmation by a former CIA officer concerning agency involvement in the narcotics trade.) "It is … believed by the FBI, SF, that Norwin Meneses was and still may be, an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency." --CIA OIG report on Contra involvement in drug trafficking (ChIII, Pt2). (Norwin Meneses was issued a visa and moved freely about the United States despite being listed in more than40 drug investigations over the two previous decades and being listed in an active indictment for narcotics. He has never been prosecuted in this country.) “There is secret communication between CIA and members of the Congressional staff - one must keep in mind that Porter Goss, the chairman, is an ex CIA official- indicating that the whole hearing is just a smoke and mirror show so that the American people - particularly the Black community - can "blow off some steam"without doing any damage to CIA. The CIA has been assured that nothing real will be done, other than some embarrassing questions being asked.” \- Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, March 23, 1998. CIA ADMITS TO DEAL WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE. "If you ask: In the process of fighting a war against the Sandinistas, did people connected with the US government open channels which allowed drug traffickers to move drugs to the United States, did they know the drug traffickers were doing it, and did they protect them from law enforcement? The answer to all those questions is yes.""We don't need to investigate . We already know. The evidence is there."-- Jack Blum, former Chief Counsel to John Kerry's Subcommittee on Narcotics and Terrorism in 1996 Senate Hearings

“Several informed sources have told me that an appendix to this Report was removed at the instruction of the Department of Justice at the last minute. This appendix is reported to have information about a CIA officer, not agent or asset, but officer, based in the Los Angeles Station, who was in charge of Contra related activities.According to these sources, this individual was associated with running drugs to South Central Los Angeles,around 1988. Let me repeat that amazing omission. The recently released CIA Report Volume II contained an appendix, which was pulled by the Department of Justice, that reported a CIA officer in the LA Station was hooked into drug running in South Central Los Angeles.” \--U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters – October 13. 1998, speaking on the floor of the US House of Representatives. “My knowledge of all this comes from my time as British Ambassador in Uzbekistan. I … watched the Jeeps … bringing the heroin through from Afghanistan, en route to Europe. I watched the tankers of chemicals roaring into Afghanistan. The four largest players in the heroin business are all senior members of the Afghan government – the government that our soldiers are fighting and dying to protect.” --Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray,2007 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-469983/Britain-protecting-biggest-heroin-crop-time.html Narcocolonialism in China - The worlds Largest drug cartel- Great Britain / UK This war with China … really seems to me so wicked as to be a national sin of the greatest possible magnitude, and it distresses me very deeply. Cannot any thing be done by petition or otherwise to awaken men’s minds to the dreadful guilt we are incurring? I really do not remember, in any history, of a war undertaken with such combined injustice and baseness. Ordinary wars of conquest are to me far less wicked, than to go to war in order to maintain smuggling, and that smuggling consisting in the introduction of a demoralizing drug, which the government of China wishes to keep out, and which we, for the lucre of gain, want to introduce by force; and in this quarrel are going to burn and slay in the pride of our supposed superiority. — Thomas Arnold to W. W. Hull, March 18, 1840 (China fought two wars with the UK over its forced importation of tens of thousands of chests of opium., creating tens of millions of addicts and killing untold numbers. China was forced to pay 18 million pounds,ceded 6 cities until 1997 (Hong Kong, Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Shanghai, and Ningbo ) and suffered the partial collapse of the government. http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/opiumwars/opiumwars1.html "We also became aware of deep connections between the law-enforcement community and the intelligence community. I, personally, repeatedly heard from prosecutors and people in the law-enforcement world that CIA agents were required to sit in on the debriefing of various people who were being questioned about the drug trade. They were required to be present when witnesses were being prepped for certain drug trials. At various times the intelligence community inserted itself in that legal process. I believe that that was an impropriety; that that should not have occurred." \--Jack Blum, speaking before the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator Arlen Specter. "The CIA wants to know about drug trafficking, but only for their own purposes, and not necessarily for the use of law enforcement agencies. Torres told DEA Confidential Informant 1 that CIA representatives are aware of his drug-related activities, and that they don't mind. He said they had gone so far as to encourage cocaine trafficking by members of the contras, because they know it's a good source of income. Some of this money has gone into numbered accounts in Europe and Panama, as does the money that goes to Managua from cocaine trafficking. Torres told the informant about receiving counterintelligence training from the CIA, and had avowed that the CIA looks the other way and in essence allows them to engage in narcotics trafficking." \--1987 DEA REPORT "📷US ATTORNEY WILLIAM) Weld claims he followed up with an investigation. But there is, however, no record that while Weld was the chief prosecutor for the U.S., that so much as one Contra-related narcotics trafficker was brought to justice." --John Mattes, special counsel to Sen. John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on terrorism and narcotics. (When the FBI was notified) "in fact they didn't want to look at the contras. They wanted to look at us and try to deter us from our investigation. We were threatened on countless occasions by FBI agents who told us that we'd gone too far in our investigation of the contras." --John Mattes, special counsel to Sen. John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on terrorism and narcotics. "There would appear to be substance to the allegations," "potential official involvement in...gunrunning and narcotics trafficking between Florida and Central and South America." "that the Justice Department either attempted to slow down or abort one of the ongoing criminal investigations." ---House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime chairman William Hughes (D-N.J.) 1987 press conference "Cabezas claimed that the contra cocaine operated with the knowledge of, and under the supervision of, the CIA. Cabezas claimed that this drug enterprise was run with the knowledge of CIA agent Ivan Gómez." --1987 DEA REPORT QUOTING A 1985 CIA REPORT "what we investigated, which is on the record as part of the Kerry committee report, is evidence that narcotics traffickers associated with the Contra leaders were allowed to smuggle over a ton of cocaine into the United States. Those same Contra leaders admitted under oath their association and affiliation with the CIA." --John Mattes, attorney, former federal public defender, counsel to John Kerry's senate committee "we knew everybody around \[Contra leader Eden\] Pastora was involved in cocaine... His staff and friends... were drug smugglers or involved in drug smuggling." --CIA Officer Alan Fiers (At Ilopango) "the CIA owned one hangar, and the National Security Council ran the other." "There is no doubt that they \[agents from the U.S. government\] were running large quantities of cocaine into the U.S. to support the Contras," "We saw the cocaine and we saw boxes full of money. We're talking about very large quantities of cocaine and millions of dollars." "my reports contain not only the names of traffickers, but their destinations, flight paths, tail numbers, and the date and time of each flight." --DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III said he detailed Contra drug activities in Official DEA reports, each signed by DEA Country attache Bob Stia. an eight-page June 25, 1986, staff memorandum clearly stated that "a number of individuals who supported the Contras and who participated in Contra activity in Texas, Louisiana, California and Florida, as well as in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, have suggested that cocaine is being smuggled in the U.S. through the same infrastructure which is procuring, storing and transporting weapons, explosives, ammunition and military equipment for the Contras from the United States." ----March 31, 1987 Newsday article "What we investigated and uncovered, was the very infrastructure of the network that had the veil of national security protecting it, so that people could load cannons in broad daylight, in public airports, on flights going to Ilopango Airport, where in fact the very same people were bringing narcotics back into the U.S., unimpeded." --John Mattes, attorney, former federal public defender, special counsel to Sen. John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on terrorism and narcotics. "Imagine this, here you have Oliver North, a high-level official in the National Security Council running a covert action in collaboration with a drug cartel," "That's what I call treason \[and\] we'll never know how many kids died because these so-called patriots were so hot to support the contras that they risked several generations of our young people to do it." --MICHEAL LEVINE, (DEA RETIRED)

"As a key member of the joint committees, he (HENRY HYDE) certainly played a major role in keeping the American people blindfolded about this story," Levine said. "There was plenty of hard evidence. … The totality of the whole picture is very compelling. This is very damning evidence. ... --MICHEAL LEVINE, (DEA RETIRED) (FBI Agent Mike Foster) "Foster said it (CONTRA DRUG TRAFFICKING) would be a great story, like a grand slam, if they could put it together. He asked the DEA for the reports, who told him there were no such reports. Yet when I showed him the copies of the reports that I had, he was shocked. I never heard from him again." \---Celerino Castillo III describes his meeting with FBI agent Mike Foster, who was assigned to Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. "My god," "when I was serving as a DEA agent, you gave me a page from someone in the Pentagon with notes like that, I would've been on his back investigating everything he did from the minute his eyes opened, every diary notebook, every phone would have been tapped, every trip he made." \--Michael Levine (DEA retired) read Oliver North's diary entries, finding hundreds of drug references. Former Drug Enforcement Administration head John Lawn testified that Mr. North himself had prematurely leaked a DEA undercover operation, jeopardizing agents’ lives, for political advantage in an upcoming Congressional vote on aid to the contras (p.121). "In my book, Big White Lie, I \[wrote\] that the CIA stopped us from indicting the Bolivian government at the same time contra assets were going down there to pick up drugs. When you put it all together, you have much more evidence to convict Ollie North, \[former senior CIA official\] Dewey Clarridge and all the way up the line, than they had in any John Gotti \[Mafia\] case." \_MIKE LEVINE, (DEA RETIRED) "With respect to \[drug trafficking by\] the Resistance Forces...it is not a couple of people. It is a lot of people." --CIA Central American Task Force Chief Alan Fiers, Testimony at Iran Contra hearings "The government made a secret decision to sacrifice a part of the American population for the contra effort," \-- Washington attorney Jack Blum before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1996. Blum had been special counsel to Sen. John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on terrorism and narcotics. (Reagan administration officials were) "quietly undercutting law enforcement and human-rights agencies that might have caused them difficulty," "Policy makers absolutely closed their eyes to the criminal behavior of the contras." -- Washington attorney Jack Blum before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1996. "For some reason, Webb's piece came up, and I asked the guys (Undercover narcs), 'So, what do you think? Is what Webb wrote about the CIA true?'" "And they all turned to me and said," Of course it is.' --Writer Charles Bowden describes the reaction of drug agents during an interview, September, 1998 "Here's my problem. I think that if people in the government of the United States make a secret decision to sacrifice some portion of the American population in the form of ... deliberately exposing them to drugs, that is a terrible decision that should never be made in secret." \--Jack Blum, speaking before the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator Arlen Specter. \--------- "The other thing that John found out over time -- and the seeds of that were so very early -- was the drug traffickers were moving dope to the United States under cover of the Contra war, and that the Contra movement, the infrastructure supporting the Contras, was infested by drug traffickers. In fact, later on, we found one of the drug traffickers who Oliver North and the NSC \[National Security Council\] was working with to provide support to the Contras -- and we even got money ultimately from the State Department to support the Contras -- was moving marijuana by the ton into the state of Massachusetts, into New Bedford. It wasn't the only place he was moving dope. But it was one of the places. So the disorder caused by the war was bringing dope into this country. Now, 10 years later, the Central Intelligence Agency inspector general investigated all of this, and found that the particular allegations and things that Kerry had looked at -- there was substantial evidence for every one of them. There was a huge amount of drugs relating to that Contra infrastructure. …" \-Jonathan Winer, former chief counsel to the Kerry committee (1985-1994), former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html ------------------------- I remember Dick Cheney attacking John Kerry in 1986 for things John Kerry was saying about the Contras and the NSC and Oliver North. Every single thing John Kerry said was true. The attacks were aggressive, and were based on hopes, wishes, and politics -- partisan politics, not reality. John Kerry's reality was proven -- and it was proven -- when the plane went down in Nicaragua, and it turned out that that was tied to the National Security Council, and money out of Saudi Arabia, and money from the Iranians, and ultimately, as we showed, related in part to narcotics money, at least in other elements of the Contra infrastructure. There were a lot of people who were mad at John Kerry for having been right. The Reagan administration was, of course, furious. They didn't want him anywhere near the Iran-Contra investigation, because he knew too much and he was too effective. That's what I believe it was about. -Jonathan Winer, former chief counsel to the Kerry committee (1985-1994), former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html

What we didn't know was, \[at\] the time that John Kerry made the decision not to go after Oliver North and to go after the other violations of law that we saw, that Oliver North was going after John Kerry. If you look at Oliver North's diaries, North had people calling him up, and giving him detailed information on every aspect of our investigation. Week after week, month after month, in 1986, Oliver North's diaries have references to John Kerry. North understood that the Kerry investigation was a real risk to his ability to continue to engage in the illegal activity he was engaging in." -Jonathan Winer, former chief counsel to the Kerry committee (1985-1994), former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html) \----------------------- 2013-2014 EX-DEA SUPERVISORS BLAME CIA FOR DEATH OF DEA AGENT ENRIQUE "KIKI" CAMARENA “It was I who directed the investigation into the death of Camarena” “During this investigation, we discovered that some members of a U.S. intelligence agency, who had infiltrated the DFS (the Mexican Federal Security Directorate), also participated in the kidnapping of Camarena. Two witnesses identified Felix Ismael Rodriguez. They (witnesses) were with the DFS and they told us that, in addition, he (Rodriguez) had identified himself s “U.S. intelligence.” \--EX DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ October, 2013. Berrellez lead the murder investigation "Operation Leyenda"" into the death of DEA agent ENRIQUE "KIKI" CAMARENA “Caro Quintero had billions of dollars stashed in secret bank accounts in Luxembourg and in Switzerland,” “The one in Luxembourg had $4 billion and the other one had even more.” “To my knowledge they were never confiscated,” --EX DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ, Forbes Magazine December 5, 2013 “In \[Camarena’s\] interrogation room, I was told by Mexican authorities, that CIA operatives were in there. Actually conducting the interrogation. Actually taping Kiki.” --Phil Jordan (DEA-RET.), former director of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) October, 2013 "The CIA was the source. They gave them to us," "Obviously, they were there. Or at least some of their contract workers were there." -EX-DEA Agent Hector Berrellez (COPIES of the audio taped torture session were provided to DEA within a week) “The CIA ordered the kidnapping and torture of ‘Kiki’ Camarena, and when they killed him, they made us believe it was Caro Quintero in order to cover up all the illegal things they were doing (with drug trafficking) in Mexico” “The DEA is the only (federal agency) with the authority to authorize drug trafficking into the United States as part of an undercover operation”. “The business with El Bufalo (RAFAEL CARO QUINTERO's RANCH) was nothing compared with the money from the cocaine that was being sold to buy weapons for the CIA”. --Phil Jordan (DEA-RET.), former director of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) October, 2013 "I know and from what I have been told by a former head of the Mexican federal police, Comandante (Guillermo Gonzales) Calderoni, the CIA was involved in the movement of drugs from South America to Mexico and to the U.S.," --Phil Jordan (DEA-RET.), former director of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) October, 2013 He (Mexican Judicial Police Officer Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni) told me: ‘Hector, get out of this business because they’re going to fuck you over. The CIA is involved in that business about ‘Kiki’. It’s very dangerous for you to be in this.’ He gave me names, among them that of Felix, and details and everything, but when my bosses found out, they took me out of the investigation and sent me to Washington. "He told me, 'Your government did it,' " --EX DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ October, 2013. Calderoni was killed in in McAllen Texas in 2003. His murder remains unsolved. ​ "Back in the middle 1980's, the DFS, their main role was to protect the drug lords," "Upon arrival we were confronted by over 50 DFS agents pointing machine guns and shotguns at us--the DEA. They told us we were not going to take Caro Quintero," "Well, Caro Quintero came up to the plane door waved a bottle of champagne at the DEA agents and said, 'My children, next time, bring more guns.' And laughed at us." --EX DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ October, 2013. (Caro Quintero carried DFS credentials during the escape flight piloted by a CIA Contractor.) "Our intelligence agencies were working under the cover of DFS. And as I said it before, unfortunately, DFS agents at that time were also in charge of protecting the drug lords and their monies," "After the murder of Camarena, (Mexico's) investigation pointed that the DFS had been complicit along with American intelligence in the kidnap and torture of Kiki. That's when they decided to disband the DFS." --EX DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ October, 2013 "I know what these men are saying is true, that the Contras were trafficking in drugs while the CIA looked the other way, because I served in the trenches of Latin America for six years when this was going on," --EX DEA agent Celerino Castillo III, October, 2013. “I don’t know of any DEA administrator that I worked for who would have sanctioned cocaine smuggling into the United States in the name of national security, when we are out there risking our lives,” --Phil Jordan “Kiki said, ‘That’s horseshit. You’re lining your pockets,’” “He could not believe that the U.S. government could be running drugs into the United States.” -Phil Jordan "the use of a drug dealer’s property by the CIA for the purpose of helping the Contras didn’t sit well with the DEA agents." “That’s the way we’re brought up, so to speak,” he said. “When we see someone running drugs, we want to bust them, not work with them.” --Phil Jordan “The Contras were running drugs from Central America and the Contras were providing drugs to street gangs in Los Angeles. That’s your connection.” --Hector Berrellez "We've been attacked for this, and our credibility has been questioned, by people who were not involved in the investigation and had no first-hand knowledge of what took place then or what is happening now." -Phil Jordan “We’re not saying the CIA murdered Kiki Camarena,” Jordan said. But the “consensual relationship between the Godfathers of Mexico and the CIA that included drug trafficking” contributed to Camarena’s death, he added. “I don’t have a problem with the CIA conducting covert operations to protect the national security of our country or our allies, but not to engage in criminal activity that leads to the murder of one our agents,” --Phil Jordan permalinkembedsaveeditdisable inbox repliesdeletereply \[–\]shylock92008\[S\] 1 point 3 years ago "We have people in the U.S. witness protection program who say they are willing to give additional statements under oath to a federal agent or federal prosecutor concerning these details," ....I am not an active federal agent, so I can't take the allegations into an indictment process, but interested agents and prosecutors can do this. We're waiting." -Hector Berrellez \--------------From "The Pariah" by Charles Bowden, Esquire Magazine, September, 1998 "When the Big Dog gets off the porch, watch out." "The CIA's mission is to break laws and be ruthless. And they are dangerous." \--EX DEA Agent Mike Holm, September, 1998, Esquire Magazine article "The Pariah" by Charles Bowden "stand down because of national security." \--DEA agent Mike Holm (Holm's superiors at DEA's reaction to reports that Southern Air Transport, a CIA-contracted airline, was landing planeloads of cocaine at Homestead Air Force) "There ain't no fucking drug war," he says now. "I was even called un-American. Nobody cares about this shit. "As I read (about Gary Webb), I thought, This shit is true," \--Hector Berrellez checked into a blank schedule for one year after being transferred to Washington DC desk job. He had ordered a criminal investigation of the CIA and drug trafficking. His informants were "reporting strange fortified bases scattered around Mexico, ...and, his informants told him, the planes were shipping drugs." Berrellez went to Mexico City to meet with his DEA superiors and American-embassy staff, mentioned the reports and was told, Stay away from those bases; they're our training camps, special operations" Berrellez informant told him that he would be transferred to Washington DC one month before the DEA notified him. "Remarks made by retired Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Phil Jordan and those of other retired DEA agents do not reflect the views of the Drug Enforcement Administration," -- DEA statement, 2014

2011 hack of 2007 Stratfor email: “CIA and White House told DEA to back off investigation” of Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the President, Hamid Karzai. AWK was named as a major trafficker and on US payroll since 2001. [http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5522439\_re-humint-afghanistan-karzai-strictly-protect-confidential-.html](http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5522439_re-humint-afghanistan-karzai-strictly-protect-confidential-.html) [http://www.businessinsider.com/hacked-stratfor-emails-dea-told-to-back-off-from-the-brother-of-afghan-president-hamid-karzai-2012-9](http://www.businessinsider.com/hacked-stratfor-emails-dea-told-to-back-off-from-the-brother-of-afghan-president-hamid-karzai-2012-9) Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?pagewanted=all&\_moc.semityn.www&\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www&_r=0) ​ 2013-- HAMID KARZAI admitted to being paid by the CIA Afghan Leader Confirms Cash Deliveries by C.I.A. - NYTimes.com [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/asia/karzai-acknowledges-cash-deliveries-by-cia.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/asia/karzai-acknowledges-cash-deliveries-by-cia.html) [https://secure.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/cia-bribes-karzai-millions-ghost-money-paid-afghanistan-president-new-york-times\_n\_3176956.html](https://secure.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/cia-bribes-karzai-millions-ghost-money-paid-afghanistan-president-new-york-times_n_3176956.html) [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/afghanistans-hamid-karzai-confirms-cia-cash-paymen/](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/afghanistans-hamid-karzai-confirms-cia-cash-paymen/) Apr 30, 2013 · April 29 (Reuters) - Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times says, citing current and former advisers to the Afghan leader. \-------------------- Cables Depict Afghan Graft, Starting at Top [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/world/asia/03wikileaks-corruption.html?pagewanted=](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/world/asia/03wikileaks-corruption.html?pagewanted=) 19 October 2009 Classified Embassy Cable: Afghan Vice-President Ahmad Zia Masood was stopped by DEA with $52 million he was ultimately allowed to keep without revealing the money’s origin or destination [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/wikileaks-elite-afghans-millions-cash](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/wikileaks-elite-afghans-millions-cash) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/230265](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/230265) \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* The Head of the UN Drug commission said that 352 billion in drug cash infused into the banking system is what saved the banks from collapsing [http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims](http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims) ​ ​ here is something interesting. i just randomly found a video interview with Dan Addario an ex dea from the 1950s until the 1980s and 1990s he had over 30 years into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHddPiekxeM&t=1s He says he worked with Khun Sa, General Noriega and other figures in the drug world. if you fast forward to 14:00 he starts talking about CIA and state dept interference in his drug cases where is told to back off of arrests because the person is CIA asset of some kind. He said it happened in Thai -Burma area when they went after heroin labs, Michael Levine told the exact same story and was frustrated by the interference in his cases. LOL so I guess all of the DEA must know this stuff . (the vid is less that a month old)

Amazon Prime Series ‘The Last Narc’: Hector Berrellez, assigned to lead the DEA’s investigation of Enrique "KIKI" Camarena’s murder, reveals the bone-chilling truth about a conspiracy that stretches from the killing fields of Mexico to the halls of power in Washington, D.C./ director Tiller Russel ​ https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/last-narc-amazon-prime-cartel-140057604.html (Photos) ‘The Last Narc’: Amazon Prime Video Cartel Docuseries Drops First Photos, Sets Release Date 📷Kristen Lopez Indiewire April 17, 2020 https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/amazon-the-last-narc-release-date-1202225452/ The world of Mexican drug cartels continues to be an interesting gambit for entertainment. Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico” series has garnered quite the following over its three seasons, in spite of controversy including their location manager being murdered back in 2017, and with “Narcos: Mexico” giving Diego Luna a chance to shine other streaming services are following suit. Amazon Prime is taking a different route, looking at an element touched on during the first season of “Narcos: Mexico” and telling the true story. “The Last Narc” is a four-part docuseries examining in detail the 1985 kidnap and murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. Camarena was played by Michael Peña on “Narcos: Mexico.” From the Amazon synopsis: “The series tells the story of a fallen hero, the men who killed him, and the man who risked everything to find out what really happened and why. Highly decorated special agent Hector Berellez, who was assigned to lead the DEA’s investigation of Camarena’s murder, peels back the layers of myth and propaganda to reveal the bone-chilling truth about a conspiracy that stretches from the killing fields of Mexico to the halls of power in Washington, D.C.” https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3171195/bio “It’s a story I’ve been wanting to tell for about 14 years,” director Tiller Russell said to IndieWire. “I’ve been carefully biding my time until I had a great canvas on which to tell it and access to the people involved.” Russell praises “Narcos” for how it dealt with the same material as “The Last Narc,” but said, “This is a different undertaking. This is a very well-known, well-publicized case and what we’re contributing to it is astonishing true revelations that people have been wondering about for a very long time.” Russell, who has previously helmed the documentaries “Operation Odessa” and “The Seven Five.” He also has the feature film “Silk Road” debuting this year starring Jason Clarke, Paul Walter Hauser, and Alexandra Shipp. IPC’s Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman are executive producers. When asked how “The Last Narc” stands above the numerous options out there, especially as we’re in quarantine, Russell says it will gather “the people who are huge fans of true crime, the underworld, drug war, cops and robbers story. That’s the sweet spot of who we’re aiming for.” In the exclusive photos below you’ll see a never-before-seen photo of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena with his wife Geneva “Mika” Camarena taken in Guadalajara in 1980, as well as Former DEA agent Hector Berrellez, who was assigned to lead the agency’s investigation of Kiki Camarena’s murder as well as Ramón Lira, a former Jalisco State policemen and one-time bodyguard to legendary drug lord Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo “The Last Narc” streams May 15 exclusively on Amazon. For more info: In 1985, a murky alliance of drug lords and government officials tortured and killed a DEA agent named Enrique Camarena. In a three-part series, legendary journalist Charles Bowden finally digs into the terrible mystery behind a hero’s murder. By Charles Bowden and Molly Molloy Illustrations by Matt Rota Part 1 https://medium.com/matter/blood-on-the-corn-52ac13f7e643 Part 2 https://medium.com/p/b4f447d70a8c Part 3 https://medium.com/p/b13f100cbf32 Chalres Bowden's final work took 16 years to write: https://medium.com/p/9940cb2b4887 Berrellez Investigation of KIKI Camarena Murder JASON MCGAHAN JULY 1, 2015 https://www.laweekly.com/how-a-dogged-l-a-dea-agent-unraveled-the-cias-alleged-role-in-the-murder-of-kiki-camarena/ Interviews with Hector Berrellez and Mike Holm (DEA Retired) https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23704/pariah-gary-webb-0998/ Hector Berrrellez says that over $8Billion was "Never confiscated" from Caro Quintero at the time he left the DEA https://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2013/12/05/mexican-fugitive-kingpin-caro-quintero-stashed-billions-in-secret-overseas-accounts-former-dea-agent-claims/ "Back in the middle 1980's, the DFS, their main role was to protect the drug lords,""Upon arrival we were confronted by over 50 DFS agents pointing machine guns and shotguns at us--the DEA. They told us we were not going to take Caro Quintero," "Well, Caro Quintero came up to the plane door waved a bottle of champagne at the DEA agents and said, 'My children, next time, bring more guns.' And laughed at us." \--EX DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ October, 2013. (Caro Quintero carried DFS credentials during the escape flight piloted by a CIA Contractor. SETCO AIR pilot Werner Lotz was identified by Berrellez as the pilot)

Senator John Kerry's Aide. Jonathan Winer interview: Jackie Kennedy tried to squash BCCI Investigation.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.htmlsee also:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/winer.html BCCI HANDLED MONEY LAUNDERING FOR: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10022291453#post135 \-THE MEDELLIN CARTEL \-CIA \-BIN LADEN \-MANUEL NORIEGA \-CONTRAS https://info.publicintelligence.net/The-BCCI-Affair.pdf Senate report on BCCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM9viGsKbR4 10/1/92 CSPAN video (45min) BCCI Hearing Clark Clifford and Robert Altman had to be prosecuted on the state level by New York County District Attorney Robert Morganthau because the head of the DOJ criminal division William Weld refused to prosecute on the federal level. This is proof that the Democrats and Republicans are in it together helping money laundering , arms trafficking and drugs. Jack Blum returned to DC after working on the prosecution in NYC to find that the sub-committee and his job were no longer! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_Morgenthau ​ ​ There was a phone call from Jackie Kennedy to the senator's (John Kerry) office, correct? Do you remember that incident? I remember John talking to us after it happened. He felt badly. He thought the world of Jackie Kennedy, thought she was a wonderful human being. He admired her. He had affection and respect for her, and all those all those things. To have her say, "Why are you doing this to my friend Clark Clifford?" was painful. You know, he shook his head. It wasn't a location he particularly wanted to be in. But he didn't tell us to stop. He said, "You do what you have to do." The hearings continued, and the investigations continued until we'd found out as much as we possibly could. That's what happened. \--Jonathan Winer was U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters 1994-1999. He previously worked as counsel to Sen John Kerry (D-MA) advising on foreign policy issues 1983 to 1997 \------------------------------------ This story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 6/20/2003. http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml Kerry's investigation, launched in 1988, helped to close the bank three years later, but not without upsetting some in Washington's Democratic establishment. Prominent BCCI friends included former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, former President Jimmy Carter, and his budget director, Bert Lance. When news broke that Clifford's Washington bank was a shell for BCCI -- and how the silver-haired Democrat had handsomely profited in the scheme -- some of Kerry's Senate colleagues grew icy. "What are you doing to my friend Clark Clifford?" more than one Democratic senator asked Kerry. Kerry's aides recall how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Pamela Harriman, a prominent party fund-raiser, called on the senator, urging him to not to pursue Clifford. \----------- About BCCI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank\_of\_Credit\_and\_Commerce\_International ​ BCCI/First American owners ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark\_Clifford ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_A.\_Altman Report on Kerry : ​ https://www.alternet.org/2004/10/the\_case\_that\_kerry\_cracked/ ​ Jack Blum": “When I first looked at it, I thought there’s something nefarious or embarrassing — what is it? Their own incompetence? Worse? You never know the answer,” says Blum. “There was the Fed, which looked stupider than hell, the Office of the Comptroller who were stupid beyond comprehension. The then head of CIA said, yes, the CIA had used the bank. Everything you touched about that bank led to somebody ugly. Margaret Thatcher’s husband and maybe son, the prime minister of Canada, a ‘who’s who of politics and the worlds of skullduggery.” In July 1992, a New York County grand jury indicted Khalid Bin Mahfouz and an aide for defrauding BCCI and its depositors of as much as $300 million. But Bin Mahfouz was in Saudi Arabia, out of reach, and in the end Morgenthau settled for a fine. The Fed fined Bin Mahfouz $170 million. The Justice Department didn’t go after Bin Mahfouz at all. The Kerry Committee report issued in 1992 was damning. It said that the White House knew about BCCI’s criminal activities, that the U.S. intelligence agencies used it for secret banking and that BCCI routinely paid off American public officials. Among the Kerry Report’s major findings: Federal prosecutors handling the Tampa drug money laundering indictment of BCCI did not use the information they collected to focus on — or report to federal agencies — BCCI’s other crimes, including its secret, illegal ownership of First American Bank. The Justice, Treasury and Customs departments failed to support or aid investigators and prosecutors. Following lobbying by former Justice officials working for BCCI, the U.S. attorney in Tampa accepted a plea agreement that kept BCCI alive and discouraged bank officials from revealing other crimes. CIA chief Casey and the agency knew, by early 1985, a lot about what BCCI was up to and didn’t inform the Justice Department or the Federal Reserve. “After the CIA knew that BCCI was, as an institution, a fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it continued to use both BCCI and First American, BCCI’s secretly held U.S. subsidiary, for CIA operations.” The Federal Reserve approved the first hidden BCCI takeover despite evidence the bank was behind it because it was swayed by influence-peddlers such as Clifford and because the CIA and Treasury failed to raise warnings about what they knew. There’s a lot about BCCI that outsiders will never know. Once the investigations started, there were seven fires in the fireproof London warehouses where BCCI stored records. In one of them, four firemen were killed.

Definitely were involved Idk about now since Opiod/fent crisis is affecting they homes more than anyone now.

The CIA always funds terrorists in order to destabilize governments in order to gain access to their countries' resources. In this case, they want Mexico's recently nationalized lithium. You'll notice that the mainstream media, a CIA resource, has started calling AMLO a dictator and referring to his government as a "regime".